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complete the painting. She would sell it to fetch money for them. Sue

requested Johnsy not to look out of the window.

“All right,” said Johnsy. “Finish your painting soon for I want to see the

last leaf fall. I’m tired of waiting. I have to die, so let me go away

peacefully like one of those poor, tired leaves.”

Johnsy agreed and asked Sue to finish the painting so that she could

be in time to see the last leaf fall off the ivy plant. She was tired of

waiting to see it fall. She wanted to die and was tired just like the poor

tired ivy leaves.

“Try to sleep,” said Sue. “I have to paint an old miner. I will call Behrman

up to be my model.”

Sue asked her to try to get some sleep. As she had to paint an old

miner, she would call upon their neighbour, Behrman to be a model for

her.

Sue rushed down. Behrman lived on the ground floor.

Sue went downstairs to the ground floor of the house where Behrman

lived.

He was a sixty-year-old painter. His lifelong dream was to paint a

masterpiece but that had remained a dream. Sue poured out her worries

to Behrman. She told him how Johnsy was convinced that she would die

when the last leaf fell.

Behrman was a 60 year old painter. He aspired to paint a masterpiece.

Sue discussed Johnsy’s condition with him. She said that Johnsy was

sure that she would die when the last leaf fell off the ivy plant.

“Is she stupid?” asked Behrman. “How can she be so foolish?”

Behrman commented that Johnsy was being silly.