"No, no! You shan't go. I want you--you must stay with us, now. I know
Matt doesn't believe at all in that dreadful report."
"That wouldn't be anything now, even if it were true. There's another
report--don't you know it?--in the paper this morning." Louise tried to
look unconscious in the slight pause Suzette made before she said: "And
your father has been saying my father is a thief."
"Oh, papa!" Louise wailed out.
It was outrageously unfair and ungrateful of them both; and Hilary gave
a roar of grief and protest. Suzette escaped from Louise, and before he
could hinder it, flashed by Hilary to the street door, and was gone.