She closed the door carefully, and stood before me with her hands folded behind her back.
"I told you how it would be!" she exclaimed.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"Why, you're flying out at Babylon; she's mad, and you'll take the consequences, you will."
"I do not imagine they will be very terrible, Lottie."
"That's as a body may happen to think. There's been a great time since you started."
"What has happened?" I inquired, losing all scruples as to the manner in which Lottie might have obtained her information.
"In the first place, we had Lawrence—"
"Was he here?"
"No, no. Babylon went out to walk for her health—you see Babylon needs exercise. After you stole away, I had my eye on her—"