Gasping and sobbing in a passion of tears, she beat the coverlet and pillows with her clenched fists.

"Sneak!" she babbled aloud.

"Sneak! Snake-in-the-grass! Cat!" Bibbs saw that she did not know he was there, and he went softly toward the door, hoping to get away before she became aware of him; but some sound of his movement reached her, and she sat up, startled, facing him.
"Bibbs! I thought I saw you go out awhile ago." "Yes.

I came back, though.

I'm sorry--" "Did you hear me quarreling with Sibyl ?" "Only what you said in the hall.