CHAPTER XXXIV.
UNDER THE PINES WITH TOM.
Jerrie found Tom just where she had left him, on the piazza outside, waiting for her, it would seem, for the moment she appeared he arose, and going with her down the steps walked by her side along the avenue toward the point where she would turn aside into the road which led to the cottage.
'How did you find Maude!' he asked.
'Weaker than I supposed,' Jerrie replied, 'and so tired.

Oh, Tom, I know she hurt herself worrying about my room as she did, and if she dies I shall never like it again.' 'Nonsense,' Tom answered, carelessly.

'Maude won't die.

She's got the Tracy constitution, which nothing can kill.

Don't fret about your room.
Maude liked being there.