"What was that?" mumbled the voice from the bed.
"I said I didn't care to discuss it."
"That's—best. I never did, either."
"And I said that personally I never believed it."
Nell answered with a gesture of dismissal and Mary left her. As she descended the dark staircase of the boarding house she shook her head as if dissatisfied about something.
"I'm just as curious as Aunt Caroline," she thought. "I ought to be ashamed of myself. But just the same I'd like to know what it is that they say—and some day I'm going to find out."