"Oh, come! It's not as bad as that!"
"The hell it ain't. The doctor knows—I know. Not that it matters. It was coming to me and I got it."
"Where's the doctor?" Matthias insisted. "Why isn't he attending you now?"
"He's in the other room ... trying to silence that crazy woman.... She plugged me and ... went into hysterics...."
"Who?"
"Nella Cardrow.... Had the devil of a time with her before doctor came ... trying to keep her from rushing out and giving herself up ... all this in the papers.... But all right now: we'll hush it up."
"Then that's what you want of me?"
"Wait," Marbridge grunted. "Where's that girl?"
Joan moved back to his side. "What can I do?" she said; and these were all the words Matthias heard her utter from first to last of that business.
Marbridge nodded at her with a curling lip: "You can get out!"