Are you sick, papa ?" "No, dear.

Why ?" "Because you did not go on the other train." "No, dear, I am all right, just a little tired," replied Harry.

Then he added, looking solicitously at Maria, "Are you sure you feel able to go to school to-day ?--because you need not, you know." "I am all right," said Maria.
She and her father had seated themselves at the table.

Harry looked at his watch.
"We shall neither of us go if we don't get our breakfast before long," he said.
Then Hannah came in, with a lowering look, bringing the coffee-pot and the chops and rolls.
"Where is Annie ?" asked Harry.
"I don't know," replied Hannah, with a toss of her head and a compression of her lips.

She was a large, solid woman, with a cast in her eyes.