His ludicrous manner amused the others but frightened the too successful Alfaretta. Also, her attention was claimed by Molly’s expression. That ambitious young person was looking very white about the lips, and was clasping and unclasping her hands in evident distress.
“Molly, what’s the matter?” cried Alfy, shaking her partner in the affair.
Molly lifted one shaking finger and pointed into the distance:
“I—I hit something, too!”
Other eyes than Alfy’s followed the pointing finger and a groan of horror burst from more than one throat.
Indeed, and all too surely, Molly had “hit something, too!”