Chapter 8
THE LISTENING EAR"I don't know what is the matter with Jane," sighed Mrs. Strong
a few days after the employment of the new chauffeur.
"She's not ill, is she?" responded her husband. "I never saw her
looking more fit."
"She looks all right," said her mother. "It is the peculiar way
she is acting that bothers me. She spends hours and hours moping in
her room, and then there are times when she takes notions of going
out and is positively insistent that she must have the car."
"Maybe she's in love," suggested Mr. Strong, resorting to the
common masculine suspicion.
"With whom?" retorted his wife indignantly. "I don't believe
there is an eligible man under forty in all New York. None of the
men are thinking about marriage these days. They all want to go to
France, even
