Alexander stalked back to the corner of the street.

The collie paced toward the side gate whence he had issued, affecting to remember something of great importance.

They disappeared.
Once out of sight of one another they began to bark furiously.
"Well, I NEVER!" exclaimed Trina in great disgust.

"The way those two dogs have been carrying on you'd 'a' thought they would 'a' just torn each other to pieces when they had the chance, and here I'm wasting the whole morning----" she closed her window with a bang.
"Sick 'im, sick 'im," called Maria Macapa, in a vain attempt to promote a fight.
Old Miss Baker came out of the vestibule, pursing her lips, quite put out at the fiasco.

"And after all that fuss," she said to herself aggrievedly.
The little dressmaker bought an envelope of nasturtium seeds at the florist's, and returned to her tiny room in the flat.