for doing it as she would have been for not doing it.
Therefore, she bent an angry face toward the fire, her mouth pouting
in a rather inviting fashion. Then it rounded slowly into a sanguine
O, which of itself suggested osculation, but in reality stood for
"observe!" For the paper Billy had thrown into the fire had fallen
under the gas-logs, and she remembered his guilty start.
"After all," said Margaret, "it's none of my business."
So she eyed it wistfully.
"It may be important," she considerately remembered. "It ought not to
be left there."