She only set the candy behind her with a quick movement which puzzled Rose.
"Aren't you going to offer your mother some ?" she asked, laughing.
"Mother can't eat candy.

Dr.Wallace has forbidden it," Lucy said, quickly.
"Yes, that is quite true," assented Mrs.Ayres.She began reading her paper.

Lucy offered the bowl again to Rose, who took a bonbon.

She was just swallowing it when Horace Allen appeared.

He made a motion which did not escape Mrs.Ayres.She rose and confronted him with perfect calmness and dignity.