He heard you tell Betty to have a nice one ready, and he said, 'There's sure to be nothing nice in the house; there never is.

I'll go and catch some trout,' and he went.

Do you think he was out in all that funder and lightning ?" Then, seeing Kitty's startled look, Tony grew frightened too.

"You don't fink he is hurt, do you, Kitty ?" he asked anxiously.
"You don't fink Dan has been struck, do you ?" But at that moment, to their intense relief, Dan himself crossed the hall.

From his appearance he might have been actually in the stream, getting the trout out without rod or line.