"What a fool question. Do you think I don't know my business?"
He did not answer, and she turned away.
"Daddy?"
"Yes, Rosie." He was at her side at once.
She lifted her clear eyes to his face.
"I don't like that woman."
"Like her!" he answered slowly. "Like her! Her heart is as black as my hat."
To herself Dr. Harpe was saying:
"Moses! I had to start in on somebody."
It was with relief that she looked through her office window after supper and saw that the wagon was gone from the vacant lot.