It's too mean! I like poor Bibbs, and I don't want to see him made such a fool of, and I don't want to see the family made such a fool of! I like poor Bibbs, but if he'd only stop to think a minute himself he'd have to realize he isn't the kind of man ANY girl would be apt to fall in love with.

He's better-looking lately, maybe, but you know how he WAS--just kind of a long white rag in good clothes.

And girls like men with some SO to 'em--SOME sort of dashingness, anyhow! Nobody ever looked at poor Bibbs before, and neither'd she--no, SIR! not till she'd tried both Roscoe and Jim first! It was only when her and her family got desperate that she--" Bibbs--whiter than when he came from the sanitarium--opened the door.
He stepped across its threshold and stook looking at her.

Both women screamed.
"Oh, good heavens!" cried Sibyl.

"Were you in THERE?
Oh, I wouldn't--" She seized Mrs.Sheridan's arm, pulling her toward the stairway.