MRS. KRAUSE
[From the window, arrogantly.] Miele! You come up here!
HELEN
[In a tone of command.] Miele, you go for the doctor! [MIELE withdraws into the house.] Well, then I must go myself …
[She goes into the house and comes back out at once carrying her straw hat.
MRS. SPILLER
It'll go wrong—m—If you call the doctor, dear Miss Helen,—m—it will surely go wrong!
HELEN passes her by. MRS. SPILLER withdraws into the house, shaking her head. As HELEN turns at the driveway KAHL is standing at the boundary fence.
KAHL
[Calls out to HELEN.] What's the matter over at your place?