He heard their two voices talk on and on, until Laura's slowly quieted down.

Soon afterwards she left the house, and Deborah came in to him.
"She's gone home, eh ?" asked Roger.
"Yes, she has, poor silly child--she said at first she had come here to stay." "By George," he said.

"As bad as that ?" "Of course it isn't as bad as that!" Deborah cried impatiently.

"She just built and built on silly suspicions and let herself get all worked up! I don't see what they're coming to!" For a few moments nothing was said.
"It's so unnatural!" she exclaimed.

"Men and women weren't _made_ to live like that!" Roger scowled into his paper.
"Better leave 'em alone," he admonished her.