“Oh!”
“She would!”
“I can't believe it.”
“I am sure of it.”
I held my peace. I could not help a sense of dismay at finding myself so near such a woman. I knew of bad women, but only in books: it would appear they were in other places as well!
“We must be on our guard,” he said.
“Against what?”
“I don't know; whatever she may do.”
“We can't do anything till she begins!”
“She has begun.”