Medlicot was asleep, and it was agreed that Kate should remain in the veranda, and look in from time to time to see whether the wounded man required aught at her hands.

She looked in very often, and then, at last, he was awake.
"Miss Daly," he said, "I feel so ashamed of the trouble I'm giving." "Don't speak of it.

It is nothing.

In the bush every body, of course, does any thing for every body." When the words were spoken she felt that they were not as complimentary as she would have wished.

"You were to have come to-day, you know, but we did not think you'd come like this, did we ?" "I don't know why I didn't go home instead of coming here." "The doctor will reach Gangoil sooner than he could the mill.