"By evening, help came."
"How did you know all this?"
"Oh! Leila told me some—and the rest—well, sir, I saw it. I've been here often."
The rector studied the excited young face. "Would you like to have been there, Jack?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"I should have been afraid, and—" Then quickly, "I suppose he was; she was; any one would have been."
"Like as not. He for her, most of all. But there are many kinds of fear,
Jack."
John was silent, and the rector waited. Then the boy broke out, "Leila told me last week I was a coward."
"Indeed! Leila told you that! That wasn't like her, Jack. Why did she say it?"