You are better here, and we will send for Mrs.Medlicot as soon as the men have had a rest.

How was it all, Mr.Medlicot?
Harry says that there was a fight, and that you came in just at the nick of time, and that but for you all the run would have been burned." "Not that at all." "He said so; only he went off so quickly, and was so busy with things, that we hardly understood him.

Is it not dreadful that there should be such fighting?
And then these horrid fires! You were in the middle of the fire, were you not ?" It suited Kate's feelings that Medlicot should be the hero of this occasion.
"We were lighting them in front to put them out behind." "And then, while you were at work, these men from Boolabong came upon you.

Oh, Mr.Medlicot, we shall be so very, very wretched if you are much hurt.

My sister is so unhappy about it." "It's only my collar-bone, Miss Daly." "But that is so dreadful." She was still thinking of the one word he had spoken when he had--well, not asked her for her love, but said that which between a young man and a young woman ought to mean the same thing.