Then he carefully adjusted his spectacles, took a long look at Patsy's face, and heaved a deep sigh of resignation.
"Thank goodness, that's settled," said Patsy cheerfully.
Uncle John turned to the boy, saying dismally: "I've done everything in my power for these girls, and now they defy me.
They've declared a thousand times they love me, and yet they'd trot off to bandage a lot of unknown foreigners and leave me alone to worry my heart out." "Why don't you go along ?" asked Jones.

"I'm going." "You!" "Of course.

I've a suspicion our girls have the right instinct, sir--the tender, womanly instinct that makes us love them.

At any rate, I'm going to stand by them.

It strikes me as the noblest and grandest idea a girl ever conceived, and if anything could draw me closer to these three young ladies, who had me pretty well snared before, it is this very proposition." "I don't see why," muttered Uncle John, wavering.
"I'll tell you why, sir.