Scout describes their drama about the Radleys as melancholy (a feeling of pensive sadness). They were all having a good time acting out their Radley roles, so why does Scout choose this particular word? Explain. *HINT: The narrator is an adult Scout (she has a wisdom that the young Scout did not yet posses) speaking as a six year old Scout.

Ipronounced his name, offering him at the same time my hand: he took it, smiling and saying, “we shall do very well by-and-by.” then he laid me down, and addressing bessie, charged her to be very careful that i was not disturbed during the night. having given some further directions, and intimates that he should call again the next day, he departed; to my grief: i felt so sheltered and befriended while he sat in the chair near my pillow… (chapter 3) this passage, in which jane first meets the doctor, is an example of