She looked up suddenly:
"Then who moved the furniture?"
"I did."
"Who helped you?"
"Nobody helped me."
"But I was here only a minute or two since."
"Well, do you suppose it takes me half a day to move a few sticks of furniture?"
She was impressed by his strength and his swiftness, and apparently silenced; she had thought that the servants had been brought into the affair.
"You ought to know perfectly well," he proceeded, "I should never dream of insulting you before the servants. Nobody's more careful of your dignity than I am. I should like to see anybody do anything against your dignity while I'm here."
She was still sobbing.