But before plunging into the matter, I must say that when Betty had ended I took up my little parable and told her of all that Randall had told me concerning his repudiation of Gedge.

And Betty listened with a curiously stony face and said nothing.
When Betty puts on that face of granite I am quite unhappy.

That is why I have always hated the statues of Egypt.

There is something beneath their cold faces that you can't get at..