“I won’t have Mary Ellen bullied,” said Dr. O’Grady. “It’s all you’re fit for, Doyle, to frighten helpless little girls. If you’d talked that way to Billing when he was trying to run away without paying——”
“You’re a nice one to talk about paying,” said Doyle.
Dr. O’Grady left his seat and walked over lo the door.
“What is it now, Mary Ellen?” he said.
“Mrs. Gregg says,” she said, “will I be wearing a hat or will I not?”
“Go back to Mrs. Gregg,” said Dr. O’Grady, “and tell her that you will not wear a hat, but you’ll have your hair tied up with a green silk ribbon to match your stockings. Would you like that?”
“I’d as soon have a hat,” said Mary Ellen, “and Mr. Moriarty says———”
“Surely to goodness,” said Dr. O’Grady, “he hasn’t been helping to order your clothes!”
“He has not,” said Mary Ellen, “but he was outside the barrack and me coming along the street——”
“He always is,” said Dr. O’Grady.