"We better go down, mother Sheridan." She led the way, Mrs.Sheridan following obediently, but when they came to a spot close by Bibbs's door, Sibyl stopped.

"I want to tell you about it first," she said, abruptly.

"It isn't a secret, of course, in any way; it's something the whole family has to know, and the sooner the whole family knows it the better.

It's something it wouldn't be RIGHT for us ALL not to understand, and of course father Sheridan most of all.
But I want to just kind of go over it first with you; it'll kind of help me to see I got it all straight.

I haven't got any reason for saying it except the good of the family, and it's nothing to me, one way or the other, of course, except for that.