It was obvious that something serious had happened, because Sadie's pluck seldom broke down.
"I'm glad you came," the latter said.

"I'm surely in trouble." Helen asked what the trouble was, and Sadie told her in jerky sentences.
Charnock had started for the railroad early that morning, and after he left she discovered that he had written a cheque, payable to Wilkinson.
"It's not so much the money, but to feel he has cheated me and broken loose when I thought he was cured," she concluded.

"He has been going steady, but now that brute has got hold of him he'll hang around the settlement, tanking and betting, for a week or two.

Then he'll be slack and moody and leave the farm alone, and I'll have to begin the job again." Sadie paused, with tears in her eyes, and then pulled herself together.
"Pshaw!" she said, "I'm a silly fool.

Before you came I thought I'd quit and let Bob go his own way; but I'm not beaten yet.