“I’m afraid you are right,” he said, “unless you can screw their courage up. A team should not be too confident when it goes into a game, but an absolute lack of confidence means ruin in a game like this. It’s a shame. What’s the matter?”
“You!”
“I?”
“Yes.”
“How?”
“The team needs you to brace it up and give it courage. I never realized before how much it depended on you.”
“Well, Lorrimer, I am awful sorry I can’t brace it up.”
“Can’t you?”
“Why, no! How can I?”
“Can’t you go to Boston with us?”