"Or hurt?" articulated Ruth.
John and Nan regarded each other solemnly for a moment. Then they both broke into a peal of laughter. Nan was the first to speak.
"No, I'm not sick and I wasn't hurt—the way you mean. I was a goose—that's all. I want you to forgive me."
"What for?" demanded the girls, in a breath.
"Why, for—for—making you run after me," replied Nan.
CHAPTER XIV
CHANGES
"Let's go back after luncheon," suggested Ruth as they tramped homeward.
The others assented heartily enough, and Nan was so eager to return to her sport that she did not wait for Delia to let her in at the upper door, but burst through the basement way, and ran against Miss Blake in the lower hall.