Yet, as her sister and friend were tiptoeing softly away, Polly beckoned Betty to come back to her.
"Bobbin saved my life, didn't she?" she inquired gently. "I don't think I should ever have gotten down that dreadful smoke-filled hall except for her."
Silently Betty nodded; for the moment she did not feel able to speak, because the story of Bobbin's courage and devotion had touched her very deeply.
"It is like bread cast upon the waters, isn't it?" Polly murmured faintly. "It returns to one buttered."
CHAPTER XXI
Once More in Concord
BUT as Polly did not immediately recover from the shock and exposure of the fire, Betty Graham did not return home with her family to Concord.
Anthony took the nurse and children and Faith Barton accompanied them, in order to keep Angelique from being lonely, she explained. However, her real desire, of course, was to be able to see as much as possible of Kenneth Helm.