"And she wouldn't get the place."
"Hem—probably not."
"Pretty hard for a woman that's got to earn a livin'. It ain't too late for the school committee to take back what it's done, is it?" Mrs. Stout continued earnestly.
"No; but—"
"You won't do it. Now I'm comin' to what I've got to say. You discharged Miss Wallace without any good reason. You—"
"Mrs. Stout, I protest," interrupted Mr. George. "There was a reason, and you know it as well as I do. Her costume at your club's entertainment was—"
"Be careful," warned Mrs. Stout.
"It is my custom," replied the committeeman, testily, "to speak with caution of one woman to—another woman."
"If you'd be as considerate when talkin' to men about one woman in pertic'ler there wouldn't have been any need of my comin' here to-night."