"Oh, that's it, is it?" said Mrs. Ward.
"You know her brother has been arrested."
"What for?"
"Stealing."
"Indeed! Well! I do wish she'd keep away! I'm sure I don't know what we've done that we should have such things brought into our house!"
"But it's too bad," said Elizabeth. "The young man--"
"Yes, the young man! If he'd go to work and earn an honest living, he wouldn't be arrested for stealing!"
"I was just thinking--" Elizabeth finished the pattern on the salad bowl and inclined her head on the other side, as if she had really designed the pattern and were studying the effect of her finished work,--"that if Dick--"
"Why, Elizabeth!" Mrs. Ward cried. "How can you say such a thing?"
Elizabeth smiled, and the smile irritated her mother.