"What is the matter ?" "Matter ?" he returned hurriedly.

"You know what they tried to do to me this morning." Kitty was shocked.

It was true that she did not--could not--care for this man as she loved Phil, but she had thought him her dearest friend, and she respected and admired him.

It was not good to find him now like this--shaken and afraid.

She could not understand.