"I don't mean, literally, to take the next train.

There are ways----" But she did not go on to specify them.
Mrs.Trenor sharply corrected the tense.

"There WERE ways--plenty of them! I didn't suppose you needed to have them pointed out.

But don't deceive yourself--he's thoroughly frightened.

He has run straight home to his mother, and she'll protect him!" "Oh, to the death," Lily agreed, dimpling at the vision.
"How you can LAUGH----" her friend rebuked her; and she dropped back to a soberer perception of things with the question: "What was it Bertha really told him ?" "Don't ask me--horrors! She seemed to have raked up everything.