"Your boy!" said Susan.
"Yes, my boy."
Miss Clegg turned and gave him a long look fraught with disgust, pity, and hopeless resignation.
"Jathrop Lathrop," she said, "I did suppose you had some sense even in the view of all that's dead and gone, but I guess now I'll have to give up. I did have some respect for you while I thought she was maybe your wife, but if you've gone so clean crazy that you believe that that is your boy—well!"
Susan thereupon sailed out of Mrs. Lathrop's house with Mrs. Macy wobbling in her wake.
III
SUSAN CLEGG SOLVES THE MYSTERY
Susan Clegg and Mrs. Macy walked down to Mrs. Lathrop's gate, and out of her gate and to Miss Clegg's gate; the whole in a silence deadly and impressive. Mrs. Macy paused there.