“I’m all right.”
“Better put it on.”
“No; I don’t want it.”
They were silent a moment, and then she said, almost complainingly:––
“As long as you couldn’t go, why didn’t she stay here with you?”
The question startled him.
“In town?” he exclaimed.
“Why didn’t she stay here and look after you?”
“Why, she couldn’t do that when she was going abroad.”