What she wanted was whatever was best for Larry--and so in her doubt she had determined to talk again to Larry, hoping that the interview might in some way replace her uncertainty with stability of purpose.
Presently she returned to the inner room, and in her direct way and using the fewest possible words, which had created for her her reputation of a woman who never spoke and who was packed with strange secrets, she asked Larry what he had done concerning Maggie.

He told her of the plan he had evolved, of Maggie's visit to Cedar Crest, of his ignorance of Maggie's reactions.

To all this his grandmother made response neither by word nor by change of expression.

He then went on to tell her of what he had just learned from Casey of Barney's maneuvering his misfortunes.
The old head nodded.

"Yes, Barney's just that sort," she said in her flat monotone.
And then she came to the purpose of her sending for him.