Nobody dreamed it would ever go off, and of course, no one imagined it was loaded.

But isn't it dreadful, that it should happen ?' 'Frightful!' cried Gudrun.

'And isn't it horrible too to think of such a thing happening to one, when one was a child, and having to carry the responsibility of it all through one's life.

Imagine it, two boys playing together--then this comes upon them, for no reason whatever--out of the air.

Ursula, it's very frightening! Oh, it's one of the things I can't bear.