She had seen the loitering girl and the loitering plowboy, and she went back to the house vowing that she'd "teach Jule Anderson how to spend her time talking to a Dutchman." And yet the more she thought of it, the more she was satisfied that it wasn't best to "make a fuss" just yet.

She might hasten what she wanted to prevent.

For though Julia was obedient and mild in word, she was none the less a little stubborn, and in a matter of this sort might take the bit in her teeth.
And so Mrs.Anderson had recourse, as usual, to her husband.

She knew she could browbeat him.

She demanded that August Wehle should be paid off and discharged.