Mrs.Upjohn drew herself up to her severest height.

"What shameless impertinence! How dare he intrude!" A shout of unholy laughter downstairs followed Dick's sally.
"Mr.Halloway isn't there at all," cried Olly, his fine, clear-voice pitched high above the rest, "He only asked about Pheeb at the door, and went right off." "Well, he left this for her with his compliments, and this, and this," called Dick, rummaging in his pockets, and tossing up an apple, and then a hickory nut, and last a good-sized and dangerously ripe tomato.

Olly caught them dexterously with a yell of delight, and was immediately rushed at by three of the nearest ladies and ordered not to make a noise, for Phebe was to be kept perfectly quiet.
"Such doings would never be permitted a moment if she had only been in Dr.Harrison's hands," said Mrs.Upjohn, in denunciatory tones.

"He would have forbidden her to see any one.

It is scandalous." "It is outrageous," added Mrs.Hardcastle.