But you can't wonder.

She's like some strong plant that takes all the nourishment out of the ground, so that the plants near it starve.

She can't help it.

She doesn't mean to be a vampire!" Doris hardly knew what to say.

Somehow she wished the vampire were not walking with Arthur! That, however, was not a sentiment easily communicable; and she was just turning it into something else when Miss Field said--abruptly, like someone coming to the real point-- "Does your husband like her ?" "Why yes, of course!" stammered Doris.