He'd help you, I bet, if you were in danger." Tullis flushed.

Then he patted Prince Robin's shoulder and said, with no little emotion in his voice: "Perhaps I deserve the rebuke, Bobby, but you must not forget that there is a lady in distress.

Which would you have me do--desert the lady whom we all love or the man whom we scarcely know ?" "The lady," said Bobby promptly.

"Hasn't she got a husband to look after her?
Mr.King has no friends, no relations, nothing.

Aunt Loraine likes him and so do I." "He's a fine chap," asserted Hobbs, and afterward marvelled at his own temerity.
Loraine, her merry eyes now dark with anxiety, her cheeks white with resolution, turned upon John Tullis.