Eunice stayed quite. She didn't can admit that Melinda was right. She didn't can, she didn't want. All her life, she felt inferior to the others because of her disability. But since she had this job of maid, she was an other woman, nobody knowed her secret so for the first time of her life, she felt "like the others", she tought that she finally had her chance to be "normal". The fact that Melinda discovers that she is illiterate was a comeback to the reality for her. She was ashamed to be less clever than a young girl. Thanks to the silence that she had in the room, Melinda understood that she was right. She didn't dare to say something other, she had dropped a birck and she was angry to herself for asking the question.
After a while, Eunice decided to speak. She asked, she implored Melinda to keep this secret for her, to say nothing to anybody, especially not to her parents. Melinda's mother liked to be surrounded by well-read people and if she learn the truth, she will be disappointed and ashamed (futur dans le passé) to have somebody in her circle of family and friends who have this disability. Because of her social background, Mrs Coversale was terrible, she didn't have any sympathy for the people, she was almost inhuman. On the contrary, Eunice was extremely human, altruistic. She had a difficult life, she was the eldest of a family of 6 children so she didn't receive education because her mother wanted that she take care of her brothers and sisters. Her mother was very demanding, for her, Eunice didn't need education because she thought that the life will educate her. But Eunice suffered from this disability. Melinda reassured Eunice : she said, she promised that she will keep the secret for her.
But, in spite of the promise done to Eunice, Melinda considered useful to say the truth to her mother few days later. It was with the best of intentions because she wanted help Eunice. Melinda found Eunice pleasant and moving and she thought that she deserved to