He needn't have done it! He needn't--needn't--" Her voice grew fainter, for that while, with exhaustion, though she would go over it all again as soon as her strength returned.

She lay panting.

Then, seeing her husband standing disheveled in the doorway, "Don't come in, Roscoe," she murmured.

"I don't want to see you." And as he turned away she added, "I'm kind of sorry for you, Roscoe." Her antagonist, Edith, was not more coherent in her own wailings, and she had the advantage of a mother for listener.

She had also the disadvantage of a mother for duenna, and Mrs.Sheridan, under her husband's sharp tutelage, proved an effective one.