"Quarrel with him?" she asked.
It reminded Elma of the Dudgeon's first call
"Oh, please don't," she cried in alarm.
"Then I won't," said Adelaide Maud, "but will you kindly inform me when I quarrelled with your brother Cuthbert."
It was exactly in the tone of one who would never think of quarrelling with the Leighton set. Elma grew quite pale, then her courage rose.
"He thinks such a lot of you, and you don't think anything of him. Just as though we weren't good enough!"
"Oh, Elma," said Adelaide Maud.
"And he likes you, and keeps things you drop, and you won't even speak to him."
"Keeps things I drop!"
The murder was out.