"Oh, yes!" Josephine assented. She smiled at the boy as she spoke, then looked grave as she added: "I've told him how greatly disappointed you are that you won't be able to be a soldier when you're a man."
"Humph!" grunted Donald.
"You don't mind my having told him, do you?" asked Josephine.
"No," the boy answered. "But what else did you say about me?" he inquired suspiciously.
"Oh, nothing much!"
"I thought you might have said you considered me a coward!"
Josephine flushed.
"No," she replied, "I did not."
She paused a minute, then continued: "I see you are thinking of what I said the other day when you were so unkind to May, but—"
"Oh, don't go back to that!" broke in May. "Why need you have done so, Donald? I'm sure Josephine didn't mean what she said."