“I think it’s so good for people to do something useful now and then, don’t you?”
“A form of education that you offer almost every one who comes near you.”
Hickson did not hear everything, but he caught the idea, and said severely:
“I don’t suppose any one would ask Miss Fenimer to wash dirty dishes.”
Riatt laughed: “No one who had ever seen her try.”
Ussher, who had been fuming in the background, now broke out:
“Upon my word, Christine, that tool-house was like a vault. It was madness to ask any one to spend the night in such a place.”
“Did you spend the night in the tool-house?” said Hickson with unusual directness.
“There are worse places than the tool-house,” said Riatt, as he and Ussher hurried down to the cellar to put out the furnace fire.
Hickson turned to Christine. “The fellow didn’t answer me,” he said.