Rose's Last Summer [= The Lively Corpse]

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Rose was on the skids again. Everyone in the boarding house knew it. This was no great tribute to their powers of perception since Rose went on the skids as she did everything else, with noise, abandon and a fine sense of timing and style. Saturday night at supper she told several humorous stories, and when nobody laughed as hard as she expected, she insulted everyone and went upstairs to her room.

In the middle of the night she decided to sing some old folk songs, and when Miss Henderson, who occupied the adjoining room, objected by pounding on the wall, Rose pounded back so vigorously that she knocked a hole in the plaster. Rose was furious at Miss Henderson for causing the hole in the plaster, and reported the incident immediately to Mrs. Cushman, the landlady.

Mrs. Cushman woke up and looked sadly at the clock and then at Rose. “Rose, for Pete’s sake, it’s too early to get up. It’s only three o’clock.”

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