Just for instance--why wouldn't you tell me yesterday where you were before breakfast?
I know you were SOMEWHERE, because I looked all over the place for you," she argued naively.

"I always want to know where you are, it's so lonesome when I don't know.

And you see--" She was interrupted at that point, which was not strange.

The interruption lasted for several minutes, but Evadna was a persistent little person.

When they came back to mundane matters, she went right on with what she had started out to say.
"You see, that gave old Hagar a chance to accuse you of--well, of a MEETING with Georgie.