.

Oh, rubbish! Use more common sense! All I've got to do is to make him see why I never told him about Dwight.

It was only part of that plan I had.

But what a fool! Oh, what a fool!" When at last Joe's key was heard in the door, both women leaned slowly forward, as though the strain were unbearable.

And then as Joe came into the hall, Fanny said suddenly, sharp and clear: "No, I won't keep quiet! Joe has got to be told of this!" Ethel wheeled on her: "How odious!" "I can't help it--he's my friend!" And the next moment, with Joe in the room, both women were talking to him at once--angrily, incoherently, almost shoving each other away.