Then he stared curiously after her as she went on.
Lawyer Tuxbury's small neat sign was fastened upon the door of the L of a large white house.

There was a green yard, and some newly started flower-beds.

In one there was a clump of yellow daffodils.
Two yellow-haired little girls were playing out in the yard.

They both stood still, staring with large, wary blue eyes at Mrs.Field as she came up the path.

She never glanced toward them.
She stood like a black-draped statue before the office door, and knocked.