How could she tell her stepfather?
Of late he had been hard with her.

She dared not tell him.

The money she earned was little enough, but during his idleness it had served to keep them.
Rose had scarcely gone a block when she encountered Dick Swann.

He stopped her--turned to walk with her.

It was a melancholy gift of Rose's that she could tell when men were even in the slightest under the influence of drink.