live at home in the comfort and luxury suitable to his wealth and
condition. And what she wanted us to understand clearly was that no
designing little guttersnipe was to be allowed to compromise davids
future. She concluded with an imaginative and most unflattering estimate
of mayme mccartneys character, manners, and morals, in the midst of
which i heard a gasp.
It came from mayme, standing, wideeyed and white, in the doorway. The
front door had been left ajar, and, seeing the berthelins monogrammed
car outside, she had come in. The oratress turned and stared.