"Do you feel better?" he asked.
"Much, I assure you; don't be frightened about me."
"Bessie is such a heroine!" cried Elsie.
Elizabeth gave one of the irritated looks with which she had sometimes regarded Elsie of late, but made no remark.
"She's a trump!" said Tom; "that's all there is about it."
Elsie laughed.
"I shall go up to my room and lie down," Elizabeth said; "an hour's rest will restore me completely."
Mellen assisted her upstairs and Elsie accompanied them, quite ready to accept Elizabeth's assurance that she was not injured, and doing her best to make them both laugh.
"Accidents seem the order of the day," she said; "it's lucky for us, Bessie, that we always have some one near to help us."
"Yes," was the weary reply.