"Nonsense! nothing would do that."
"Well, you had no business to play such silly boys' tricks. It's enough to make me hit you. Yes, you can laugh at me; but if I were regularly angry, you would be ready to run."
"Run away?" said Harry merrily.
"Yes, run away."
"Oh yes, and never come back again. You frighten me horribly."
"You're mocking at me, but I tell you it was very cowardly and stupid."
"No, it was not; for I did not do it, my boy."
"What? why, I woke up and caught you just as you were going to run away."
"No, I was coming back."
"Oh, Hal! that's what you call a cracker, and that's more cowardly still. When I went to sleep you were lying down beside me, and when I woke up you were standing over there."