In My Desperate Time

It was a gift I bought for myself when I got my first salary. It cost me nearly four hundred dollars. The quality is very good and it is comfortable to wear.

“Mom, catch the thief!”

From the bed, suddenly comes the screaming of Frank Noyes.

Then my parents hurry in.

One holds a rolling pin, the other a cloth-drying pole.

Turning on the light and seeing me, they are stunned.

“What are you doing here?” My mother looks at me, her face scowling.

I can't help but want to laugh. That’s it. Does my coming affect their happy life?

But this is the house I rent, don’t they feel guilty?

“Who are you?” The woman in the bed

look at her, then I burst with

my nightgown,

going to be stretched to explode

you who you are. Why are you wearing my dress? Take

so angry that I stretch out to rip off her

to hide away and says to me disdainfully, “I have money in plenty. But for me forgetting taking nightgown, I would never wear your

Damn her! How could she wear my nightgown and disdain it!

feather flock together. How dignified could Frank Noyes’s woman

while and stops. I grab her and try to rip off her

She pulls me back and says, “Jane Noyes, don't blame Moll. You didn’t come back these days. I called you but no one answered. We all think

words make

be back or not? Of course, I'm sure that they'd love it if I never came back, as

the nightgown worn by that Moll, I definitely don't want it anymore. I can think

But I still