Miss Bell had a dress-suit case, which her father tugged painfully into the house; Miss Bell followed him.

She heard his key turn in the lock while the doctor fastened his horse.
She saw the doctor, who was slightly lame, limp around to the buggy after his horse was tied, and take out two cases.

She hated him while he did it.

She felt intuitively that something terrible was to come to her mother because of those cases.

She watched the doctor limp up the steps with positive malevolence.