"Why did you join it?"
"Because I loved Kathleen O'Hara."
"She is the promoter, then?"
Ruth was silent.
"You have heard me?"
"Yes, madam."
"Kathleen O'Hara is the promoter?"
Again Ruth was silent. Miss Mackenzie glanced at the other ladies. After a pause she continued:
"We will leave that matter for the present. Please write down, Miss Judson"—here she turned to the clerk—"that Ruth Craven has refused to answer my question with regard
to Kathleen O'Hara. We will return to that point later on.—Why did you leave the society?"