But not before she had given him a heartening smile just to prove that he must not take Evadna seriously, because she did not.
"We'd better take her to her room, Mrs.Hart," she suggested, "and make her lie down for a while.

That poor fellow--as if he didn't have enough on his hands without this!" "I'm not on his hands! And I won't lie down!" Evadna jerked away from Miss Georgie, and confronted them both pantingly, her cheeks still wet with tears.

"You act as if I don't know what I'm doing' and I DO know.
If I should lie down for a MILLION YEARS, I'd feel just the same about it.

I couldn't bear him to TOUCH me! I--" "For Heaven's sake, don't shout it," Miss Georgie interrupted, exasperatedly.

"Do you want him--" "To hear?
_I_ don't care whether he does or not." Evadna was turning sullen at the opposition.