She saw the gallant effort she was making to keep her self-possession, to think with her accustomed rapidity, to strike upon some scheme whereby she could square herself.

She rose and started toward the door.
"What you'll say to John I haven't the faintest notion," she said.

"I told him very little.

I just showed him." Then she went out and closed the door after her.

At the foot of the stairs she met Katy admitting Gilman.