"Any blood on it?"
"Oh, Mrs. Ray!"
"Well, I just asked."
"They were all clean."
"And one broke off?—hum!"
"What do you think about it, Mrs. Ray?"
"I hope it'll be a lesson to Sammy Adams never to take two strange women in on a rainy night again. The Bible, even, is severe on strange women."
"Did he take them in?" Mrs. O'Neil opened her brown eyes widely.
"Take them in! He kept them all night. Haven't you heard about it? And never told me, either. That's just like a man. Flattering himself that I'd give a second thought to any woman living. Six, you say, Nellie, and one broke off?"
"The broken one is one of the six."