"You'd just told
me about Sprague's warning Karen not to leave the table when she became
dummy after Judge Marshall's little slam bid in spades."
"I remember," Penny said, pressing her fingers into her temples. "But
Karen _did_ leave the table. When Sprague said that awful thing, poor
Karen burst into tears and ran from the porch into the living room, Hugo
started to follow her, but Sprague halted him by apologizing very
humbly, and then by adding: 'I'd really like to see you play this hand,
sir. I believe I've got the cards to set you with....' Of course he
could not have said anything better calculated to hold Hugo, who, as I
said, is a regular fiend when it comes to bridge.... Well, Hugo played
the hand and made his little slam, and then he again started to go look
for Karen, but Polly, who was Sprague's partner, you know, told him in
that brusque way of hers to go on with the game and give Karen a chance
to have her little weep in peace. Probably Hugo would have gone to look
for her anyway, but just then Flora came back. She said Betty was asleep
at last and that her temperature was normal, and when she heard about
Karen, she offered to take her hand until Karen felt like coming back."
"What did Drake do then? He'd been playing anagrams with Mrs.
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