“Nothing!”
“But I heard you say something about us coming here to interfere.”
“Well, didn’t you?”
“With what could we interfere?”
Cora shifted her weight uneasily and looked confused. She felt that she had said too much.
“You seem to be afraid of something,” Doris observed shrewdly.
“Afraid!” the housekeeper snapped. “It’s you who ought to be afraid. Let me tell you a thing or two. If you don’t want to get into trouble, you’d better be starting back home!”
With that she flounced out of the room, leaving Kitty and Doris to stare blankly after her.
“Well did you ever?” Kitty exclaimed. “What did she mean by that?”
“I think she was threatening us,” Doris said in a low tone, listening to make certain that the housekeeper had gone on down the hall. “She was excited and didn’t know how much she was giving away.”