"Indeed I would. If you knew how anxious I was about Zillah—"
"Ugh!" she interrupted, with an expression of strong disgust, "I might have been a horrid, blackened thing if it hadn't been for thee."
"Oh, hush!" I cried; "I merely threw a couple of pails of water on the roof. Please say no more about it."
She passed her hand over her brow, and said hesitatingly:
"I'm so puzzled—I feel so strangely. It seems an age since yesterday."
"You've had a very severe shock, Miss Adah."
"Yes, that may be it; but it's so strange that I was afraid of thee."
"Why, Miss Adah, I was wet as a drowned rat, and had a black mark across my nose. I would have made an ideal burglar."
"That oughtn't to have made any difference; thee was trying to save my life."
"But you didn't know it."