"But I know all Roger's secrets, and he's a doctor, mind you! Am I right, Roger?
Come along! There are no servants--no eavesdroppers.

Wait.

I'll put tea on the table, and then we'll all listen." She made tea Australian fashion in a billy, which is quick and simple, but causes alleged dyspepsia cures to sell well all the way from Adelaide to the Gulf of Carpentraia.
"You'll have to tell her, Jim," said Jeremy.
"Mabel's safe as an iron roof," put in her husband.

"Noisy in the rain, but doesn't leak." But neither man nor woman could have extracted a story from James Schuyler Grim unless it suited him to tell it.

Mabel Ticknor is one of those honest little women who carry men's secrets with them up and down the world.