"But think how you and doctor brother went out and gathered up the wounded, and there were some British among them as well. He ought to be very grateful."
"I think he is. And he is a nice lad."
Their skirmishes were very amusing to the family. Patty really admired the young fellow, he seemed such a big, innocent-hearted boy; but she enjoyed posting Annis as to her side of the argument.
"Are you going?" Captain Ralston said to Marian as they were making preparations for departure.
"You—you do not need me," she murmured as, holding her hand, he drew her down nearer the pillow.
"I suppose everybody else does," he declared pettishly. "You never considered me. You did not really care—"
There were tears in her eyes as she tried to turn away.
"Perhaps when the others are all dead and gone, and I am an old man, you may remember what you confessed those two blessed days. Or you may recall it over my grave."
"I deserve it all," she returned meekly. "I tried—oh, yes, I did; but I was weak—"
"Is it too late to go back?"