Also, she gripped her by the shoulder indignantly.
"'Vadna Ramsey, I'm ashamed of you!" she cried furiously.

"For Heaven's sake, Grant, go on off somewhere and wait till she settles down.

Don't stand there looking like a stone image--didn't you ever see a case of nerves before?
She doesn't know what she's saying--if she did, she wouldn't be saying it.

You go on, and let me handle her alone.

Men are just a nuisance in a case like this." She pushed Evadna before her into the kitchen, waited until Phoebe had followed, and then closed the door gently and decisively upon Grant.