"Scare me! He must have a pretty poor opinion of a woman that can raise six boys of her own and then be 'scared' at what two snips of girls can tell her. You'll tell me now, this very minute, what scared you—this all comes of your being away from the house so far and so late—and I won't have it."
"We saw a bear—"
"A big one—"
"He was crawling on all fours—"
"Back of the sheepfold wall—"
"He scrooched down as if he was nosing for something—"
"Just where the trees are so thick you can't see into the woods—"
"And we jumped over the wall and right down into the sheep, and they made an awful fuss they were so scared too, huddling and rushing round to get out—"
"Then we found the gate—"
"But I heard him—" Dulcie's eyes were very big and bright with remembered terror.