It was Thanksgiving morning. In the crowded kitchen of my small home I was busy preparing the traditional Thanksgiving turkey when the doorbell rang. I opened the front door and saw two small children in rags huddling together inside the storm door on the top step.
'Any old papers, lady?' asked one of them.
I was busy. I wanted to say “no” __ __looked down at their feet. They were wearing thin scandals (凉鞋),wet with heavy snow.
“Come in and I'11you a cup of hot cocoa.”
They walked over and sat down at the table. Their wet shoes lefton the floor．I__them cocoa and toast with jamthe cold outside. Then I went back to the kitchen and started again on my household budget. The silence in the front door __ __me. I looked in. The girl__the empty cup in her hands, looking at it. The boy asked in a flat,' Lady ．．． are you rich?'
'Am I rich? Mercy,!' I looked at my shabby slipcover(家具套)．The girl put her cup back in its saucer（茶碟）.
“Your cups match your saucers．”
Her voice was ___ __with a need that no amount of food could supply．They left after that, holding theiragainst the wind．They hadn't said thank you．
They didn’tto. They had done more than that. Plain blue china cups and saucers were only worth five pence. But they __ __.
I tasted the potatoes and stirred(搅动)the meat soup. Potatoes and brown meat soup, a__over our heads, my man with a good steady job—these things matched, too．
I moved the chairs back from the fire andthe living room．The muddy prints of small scandals were stillon my floor. “them be for a while,” I thought. JustI should begin to forget howI am.
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