"Well, let 'em stay."
"But it's very annoying to see a lot of dirty children."
"They won't be dirty children, and the neighbors don't need to look over the hedge if they don't want to. It's high enough."
"I am just telling you what they say, Miss Doane. There was a meeting the other day of the people of Brookvale, and they decided to appoint a committee to wait upon you and express their disapproval of your actions, and request you to change your plans in some way."
Drusilla looked over her glasses.
"You don't tell me!" she ejaculated. "When be they comin'?"
"Mr. Carrington, the chairman of the Committee, is coming to see you to-night, I am told."
"Who's he?"
"He lives in the big gray house near the river, and he feels very strongly on the subject."
Drusilla said with asperity: "Well, he'll feel stronger when he leaves."