"By all means take as much time as you like."
"Would you like to come and speak a word to young William, miss?"
"No, please not; I really have nothing to say."
"It would do him good if you just said as before; 'Let it be——'"
Eola interrupted her hastily.
"Oh, no, Mrs. Hulver; I am sure that more than enough has been said. Young William will be glad to get away."
"Then the Doctor will come and talk to him."
"Is it necessary? Don't you think he might be let off any further scolding?"
"Well, miss; he has yet to face the sergeant and perhaps the colonel. So it isn't done with yet; and he won't be out of the firing line till he has reported himself and had his dressing-down."
"Then I am sure that he must be spared anything further from us."