"There's Dr. Mary MacLean and Jean Herrick."
"What! Jean Herrick! The Charity Organization woman?"
"She works with the Charities. It's her scheme."
"Well!"
Words failed Margaret.
"Well what?"
"How long have you been working on them?"
"About six weeks. Yes, just about six weeks," he repeated, and went on with a detail of the entrance hall.
"Sometimes it seems to me that you do things to be deliberately annoying. Why didn't you say anything about it? You know I'm interested in public things like that, and besides The Fortnightly is going to take up housing and public dependents this winter. Mabel Dawson is down to get the first speaker, and we've talked over Jean Herrick a good deal."
"You have?" Gregory suddenly stopped working on the detail.