CHAPTER SIXJohn knocked gently on the door of Miss Smith’s room, calling,
“It’s all right. It is only me.”
She opened at once and stood back for him to pass through. She immediately closed the door behind him.
“I am so sorry for the disturbance,” he said as he set down the tray on the dressing table. “I hate to think of you being alarmed.”
“Don’t worry, I am not any more. And it was a relief to find someone that I knew. I like Roseanne so much.”
“Roseanne?”
“Yes, that’s her name. Did you not know?”
“I met her for the first time this afternoon and she terrifies me.”
“She terrifies that poor young man, too,” she added, chuckling.
He too began to laugh.
“Poor Frank. He fancies himself as a ladies man, but he’s having very bad luck tonight. Roseanne almost knocked him out and Cherry
