“Helen!” cried Albert, again. “Helen, do you hear me?”
“Yes.”
“Are you badly hurt?”
“No. No, I don't think so.”
“Can you hold on just as you are for a few minutes?”
“Yes, I—I think so.”
“You've got to, you know. Here! You're not going to faint, are you?”
“No, I—I don't think I am.”
“You can't! You mustn't! Here! Don't you do it! Stop!”
There was just a trace of his grandfather in the way he shouted the order. Whether or not the vigor of the command produced the result is a question, but at any rate she did not faint.