She was Ida's intimate friend, but in her heart of hearts she doubted her grief.

She had once lost by death a little girl of her own.

She kept thinking of her little Alice, and how she should feel in a similar case.

It did not seem to her that she should rock, and look at a Tiffany vase.

She inveighed against the detectives and police with a reserve meaning of indignation against Ida.