"Come along," the girl said. "You might just as well bathe!"
Gilbert looked up at her and smiled. "I was just wondering," he said, "what one ought to do!"
3
The banks had closed, and there was an alarm about money and a deeper alarm about food.... Panic suddenly came upon them, and in a short while, visitors began to pack their trunks in their eagerness to get home. The women felt that they would be safer at home ... they wanted to be in familiar places. "I really ought to be at home to look after my house," a man said to Henry. "They're a rough lot in our town, and if there's any shortage of food ... they'll loot, of course! I don't like breaking my holiday, but!..."
He did not complete his sentence ... no one ever completed a sentence then ... but went indoors....
And telegrams came incessantly, telegrams calling people home, telegrams announcing that others were not coming, telegrams containing information of the war....
"I suppose," said Gilbert, "if anything comes of this, well have to do something!..."
"Do something?" Henry murmured.
"Yes, I suppose so...."
Perkins came to him, Perkins who had an agency in Manchester.