"You know as well as you want to that Lucinda Hart was no more guilty than you and I were.

We both went to school with her." Mrs.Jim Jones backed down a little.

There was something about Sylvia Whitman when she was aroused that a woman of Mrs.Jones's type could not face with impunity.

"Well, I don't pretend to know," said she, with angry sullenness.
"You pretended to know just now.

If folks don't know, it seems to me the best thing they can do is to hold their tongues, anyhow." "I am holding my tongue, ain't I?
What has got into you, Sylvia Whitman ?" "No, you didn't hold your tongue when you said that about there not being so much smoke without some fire." "Well, there always is fire when there's smoke, ain't there ?" "No, there ain't always, not on the earth.