The young man's face was alight with an intensity of eagerness, of desire, that startled Larry and filled him with a new feeling of anxiety, indeed of dismay.
"Oh, you people are slow," cried Nora.

"What is keeping you?
Come along or we shall be late.

Shall we go through the woods straight to the dump, or shall we go around ?" "Let's go around," cried Kathleen.

"Do you know I have not been around for ever so long ?" "Yes," said Larry, "let's go around by Nora's mine." "Nora's mine!" exclaimed Ernest.

"Do you know I've heard about that mine a great deal but I have never seen Nora's mine ?" "Come along, then," said Nora, "but there's almost no trail and we shall have to hurry while we can.