"And you are right, Rhoda," said Ruth, "if the girl is guilty. I hope she will be found, for I'm sure the truth could then be learned, whether she is guilty or not."
"Will you come, now, Mrs. Schuyler," said Tibbetts, from the doorway.
"The flowers have arrived."
Ruth, beckoning to Winnie, rose, and the two left the room.
"Perfectly idiotic," said Sarah, "the way she orders flowers! Fresh ones every day!"
"But hasn't she a right to spend her own money as she likes?" I defended.
"A legal right, perhaps," was the retort, "but not a moral right to disregard her husband's wishes so utterly."
CHAPTER XII
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Next morning at breakfast, there was but one topic of conversation. Indeed, little else had been talked of for days but the Schuyler case and all its side issues.
Winnie held forth at length on the martyrdom Ruth Schuyler had suffered because of the cruelty of her late husband.