"Not—recently."
"But you don't MIND folks crossing it?"
"Certainly not—if they wish to."
"There! I knew 't wasn't your blame," triumphed David.
"MY blame!"
"Yes; that Mr. Jack wouldn't let Jill come across, you know. He called her back when she'd got halfway over once." Miss Holbrook's face changed color.
"But I do object," she cried sharply, "to their crossing it when they DON'T want to! Don't forget that, please."
"But Jill did want to."
"How about her brother—did he want her to?"
"N—no."