CHAPTER XIXThe Boggs girl was still a fixture with Harriet Granniss, and drove the car around a great deal at high speed, chewing gum nonchalantly, and appearing to enjoy the notoriety. There was an insolence about her straight black bobbed hair, and the way she wore the slouchy tam on one side of her big head that precluded criticism. She showed plainly that she was being what she was because she wanted to be that way and liked to have people shocked by it. She made exceeding free with men about the town, joked a lot about the coming trial, and pretended to enjoy the prospect.
But Harriet Granniss went her grim and arrogant way unmoved. This was her house and here she stayed if heaven and earth should fall. What Emily Dillon chose to do about dying did not concern her. She was here and r
