VI.
The Sunshine Club
It is Berta Bechtel’s birthday at the Sunshine Club. Rosa wheels Winnie up to the Reality Orientation and goes to sit near Mrs. Rose, who has brought her harp today and is playing something Rosa has heard before. She recognizes a series of yearning passages aiming, it seems to her, at a certain immensely satisfying note, but avoiding it avoiding it. There it comes. It comes. The music is triumphant now, whirling around like a flock of sparrows and off with a final flourish. Rosa has never been teased like this before by a piece of music. What is the secret of it? She wishes she could ask Mrs. Rose about it, but how?
Mrs. Rose told Rosa once that her mother used to play piano pieces only up to the hard parts, then quit. When Mrs. Rose was a girl and wanted to study
