"Well, what can a man do?" he fretfully demanded.
"Discharge Miss Hamilton."
"She's invaluable to me. She's in my confidence in a business way. I can't discharge her. It wouldn't matter to her anyway. Every lawyer in town that has any practice would like to employ her. What I'm afraid of is that she'll resign. Oh, if she were afraid of losing her job, then I could easily fix Margaret!"
"It looks, Danny, as if Margaret took up with your clerk just to spite and worry you; for what else would she run with her for?"
"Well, if you'd hear them talking together once!" Daniel sullenly responded.
"Well, if we did?" questioned Jennie curiously.
"You wouldn't understand a word they were saying!" snapped her brother.
"Do they talk so dumb?" asked Sadie wonderingly.
"They seem to think it means something—the stuff they get off to each other!"
"It certainly does spite me, Danny," said Jennie with sympathetic indignation, "to have your wife use you like this! And when I think how you could have married most anybody!"