One doesn't want to kill people, you know, Miss Gray." "But they were killing me by inches," she protested.
"Ouch!" he groaned, his leg giving him a mighty twinge.
"What is it ?" she cried in alarm.

"Why should we wait for those men?
Come, Mr.Bonner, take me to the village--please do.

I am crazy, absolutely crazy, to see Daddy Crow and mother.

I can walk there--how far is it ?--please come." She was running on eagerly in this strain until she saw the look of pain in his face--the look he tried so hard to conceal.

She was standing straight and strong and eager before him, and he was very pale under the tan.
"I can't, Miss Gray.