I'm not! I've denounced quite a few already.
[_Fixing his gaze keenly on MRS. WOLFF and her husband in turn._] And
there are a few others whose time is coming. They'll run straight into my
grip some day. These setters of snares needn't think that I don't know
them. I know them very well.
MRS. MOTES
Have you been baking, perhaps, Mrs. Wolff? We're so tired of baker's
bread.
MRS. WOLFF
I thought you was goin' to square your account.
MRS. MOTES
On Saturday, as I've told you, Mrs. Wolff. My husband has been appointed
editor of the magazine "Chase and Forest."
MRS. WOLFF
Aha, yes. I know what that means.
MRS. MOTES
But if I assure you, Mrs. Wolff! We've moved away from the Kruegers
already.
MRS. WOLFF
Yes, you moved because you had to.
MRS. MOTES
We had to? Hubby, listen to this!--[_She gives a forced laugh._]--Mrs.
Wolff says that we had to move from Kruegers.
MOTES
[_Crimson with rage._] The reason why I moved away from that place?
You'll find it out some day. The man is a usurer and a cutthroat!
MRS. WOLFF
I don't know nothin' about that; I can't say nothin' about that.
MOTES
I'm just waiting to get hold of positive proof.
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