Huh! Yes, that's what you're doin'." The Major's smile was provokingly cool.
"Perhaps I am," he admitted.

"But I shouldn't advise you to forget what I have just told you, Babbitt.

I mean every word of it." It was Ruth who spoke next.

She uttered a startled exclamation.
"There's some one coming up the walk," she cried.

"Listen." Sure enough, heavy footsteps sounded upon the walk leading from the front gate to the shop.