"Ah, I think that was a sudden impulse, and she has always been too proud to own that it was a mistake."
"That's the first sensible thing any one has said yet," John remarked. "I quite agree with you. It's my own idea."
"I'm a young man of penetration, as I've told you all before."
"And shoved into a bank!" John grumbled.
"I like the bank. It's a cheerful place. There's lots of gold about, and people come and talk to me through the bars."
"But," Helen began, on the deep notes of her voice, "what should we have done if she had repented and taken us away? What should we have done?"
"We might have been happy," Miriam said.
"John, what would you have done?" Helen persisted.
"Said nothing, grown up as fast as I could, and come back."
"So should I."