"Ruth knows, and there isn't really anything to be said except that after many years' separation she may find her father.

She need not care who knows that." "It was the cruel shock to her that I thought of, and so did Kathleen West," explained Grace.

"She seems determined to hurt some one's feelings by 'notoriety' methods.

Her newspaper work has made her hard and unfeeling.

She is always trying to dig up some one's private affairs and make them public property.