Allegheny's tears started, she turned suddenly and hid her face in her hands.
Gray crossed quickly to her side, saying: "There! We've overdone it the first day, and you're tired." "I _ain't_ tired." His sympathy brought audible sobs; the girl's shoulders began to heave.
"Well, _I_ am," the mother complained.

"I'm wore to the bone.

Allie! You dry up an' stop that snivelin' so we kin go home and I kin let my feet swell, an' scream." "You're not too tired, I hope, to have dinner with Allie and me in the big dining room at the Ajax ?" Gray said, gayly.

"You'll be all right after an hour's rest, and--'I want to show her off, if her nose isn't too red." "I 'ain't seen that girl cry in ten years," Ma declared, in mingled wonderment and irritation.

"Why, she didn't cry when Number One blowed in." Allie spoke between her sobs.