"I don't think so, after what I said yesterday."
"I shouldn't think what you said yesterday could have frightened him much. You beamed at him as though he were your best friend."
"Did I?"
Anna was looking odd, Susie thought, and answering her remarks with a nervous, abstracted air. She had apparently been out, for her dress was muddy, and she was quite rosy, and her hair was not so neat as usual. She stood about in an undecided sort of way, and glanced several times at Hilton on her knees before a trunk.
"Is that all the breakfast you are going to have?" she asked, becoming aware of the glass of milk.
"What other breakfast is there to have?" snapped Susie, who was hungry, and would have liked a great deal more.
"Well, the eggs and butter are very nice, anyway," said Anna, quite evidently thinking of other things.
"Now what has she got into her head?" Susie asked herself, watching her sister-in-law with misgiving. Anna's new moods were never by any chance of a sort to give Susie pleasure. Aloud she said tartly, "I can't eat eggs and butter by themselves. I shouldn't have had anything at all if it hadn't been for Hilton, who went into the kitchen and made me this herself."
"Excellent Hilton," said Anna absently. "Haven't you done packing yet, Hilton?"
"No, m'm."