Of course it wouldn't have happened, but this was the day Margaret and I spend every month in the country with Aunt Sarah, and I didn't DREAM----" "She said one thing I thought rather tactless," interrupted Mrs.
Williams.

"Of course we must allow for her being dreadfully excited and wrought up, but I do think it wasn't quite delicate in her, and she's usually the very soul of delicacy.

She said that Roderick had NEVER been allowed to associate with--common boys----" "Meaning Sam and Penrod," said Mrs.Schofield.

"Yes, she said that to me, too." "She said that the most awful thing about it," Mrs.Williams went on, "was that, though she's going to prosecute the newspapers, many people would always believe the story, and----" "Yes, I imagine they will," said Mrs.Schofield musingly.

"Of course you and I and everybody who really knows the Bitts and Magsworth families understand the perfect absurdity of it; but I suppose there are ever so many who'll believe it, no matter what the Bittses and Magsworths say." "Hundreds and hundreds!" said Mrs.Williams.