I am here to discover what you are going to do about it ?" Her eyes were flashing, her chest was rising and falling rapidly when she had finished.

She looked straight into Senator Warfield's face, her own full in the sunlight, so that, had there been a camera "shooting" the scene, her expression would have been fully revealed--though she did not realize all that.
Senator Warfield looked her over calmly (just as a director would have wished him to do) and turned to Hawkins.

"Who is this girl ?" he asked.
"Is she the one who came here temporarily--deranged ?" "She's the girl," Hawkins affirmed, his eyes everywhere but on Lorraine's face.

"Brit Hunter's daughter--they say." "They _say_?
I _am_ his daughter! How dare you take that tone, Mr.
Hawkins?
My home is at the Quirt.

When you strike at the Quirt you strike at me.