QUAQUARO
I jus' thought I'd tell you what happened while you an' your wife was away right here in your own house?
JOHN
In my own house?
QUAQUARO
That's it! Yessir! They says that Selma pushed the perambulator with her little brother in here where the strange girl an' her friend came an' took him an' carried him off. But upstairs, in the actor's place, they caught her.
JOHN
What's that?
QUAQUARO
So up there the strange girl an' the Knobbe woman pretty near tore each other's hair out over the child's body.