She heard Bibbs offering to "help" Lamhorn with his overcoat and the latter rather curtly declining assistance, these episodes of departure being followed by the closing of the outer door.

She ran into the hall.
"What's the matter with you ?" she cried, furiously.

"What do you MEAN?
How did you dare come in there when you knew--" Her voice broke; she made a gesture of rage and despair, and ran up the stairs, sobbing.

She fled to her mother's room, and when Bibbs came up, a few minutes later, Mrs.Sheridan met him at his door.
"Oh, Bibbs," she said, shaking her head woefully, "you'd oughtn't to distress your sister! She says you drove that young man right out of the house.

You'd ought to been more considerate." Bibbs smiled faintly, noting that Edith's door was open, with Edith's naive shadow motionless across its threshold.