Miss Rose saw that the best thing for them both was to get them home as quickly as possible.
Half lifting Huldah, she helped her into the carriage.

Then she put Dick in across her lap, and her basket at her feet, and finally got in herself.
"Now then," she said, cheeringly, "we shall soon be home, and Dick shall have his bruises bathed and his poor leg bound up.

Don't cry any more, brownie, or you will frighten Mrs.Perry, and we mustn't do that on any account, must we?
Dick is going to be very brave--he always is--and you are going to be as plucky as Dick.

See there, he is better already," as the invalid gave a bark of excitement, at the sight of some sparrows in the road.
Huldah smiled, then laughed.

If Dick was all right, nothing else seemed to matter.