'You don't mean to say she's sick, on this pond?'
'No, she's unwell in another way.'
'I guess I know the way!' Mrs. Peck laughed. And then she added, 'I suppose she came up to look after her charge.'
'Her charge?'
'Why, Miss Mavis. We've talked enough about that.'
'Quite enough. I don't know what that had to do with it. Miss Mavis hasn't been there to-day.'
'Oh, it goes on all the same.'
'It goes on?'
'Well, it's too late.'