Fanny, too, soon went out on an errand.

And no other woman came to her that day.

How different from the Ohio town.
Only once a girl came from the dressmaker's.
But just after Fanny had gone out, Joe's partner came into the living-room.

In the last few hours several times she had heard his voice as he talked with Joe.

Deep, heavy and gruff, it had yet revealed a tenderness that had given to Ethel a sudden thrill--which she had forgotten the next moment, for her thoughts kept spinning so.