Marion took a step forward, her face becoming covered with a death-like pallor.
“Another word if you dare!” she said in a vibrating whisper.
The woman glanced sharply at the set lips and gleaming eyes, and seeing something in the young girl’s manner that thrilled her cowardly soul, she shrank back with a movement that took her over the threshold.
As quick as a flash Marion shut the door in her face.
“You shall get out to-night!” screamed the woman through the door.
Marion opened the door again and faced her sternly.
“I paid you eight dollars to-day for a week’s board in advance. We shall be ready to go when you have returned my money!”
“You’ll not get a cent!” roared the woman, furiously. “You shall go out penniless, you brazen hussies!”
Marion’s lips curved in a disdainful smile as she closed the door.
“You heard what I said, madam,” was her only answer.