"I guess I saw the look as well as you did--and did a little more to banish it than you did, too." "True.

I was just coming to that thing of my not having done anything.
Perhaps it was a case of fools rushing in where angels feared to tread.

You mustn't mind being called a fool in any sentence so preposterous as to call me an angel.

You see one who had never been in the crowd would say--'Why don't you get out ?' It would be droll, wouldn't it, to have some one on a far hill call--'But why don't you come over here ?' Don't you see how that must appeal to the sense of humor of the one about to go down ?" She made no reply.

The thing that hurt her was that he seemed to enjoy hurting her.
"You see I've been in the crowd," he said more simply and less bitterly.
"I don't suppose men who have been most burned to death ever say--'The fire can't hurt you.'" "And do they never try to rescue others from fires ?" asked Katie scornfully.