You may be quite sure that your friends will do all in their power for you.

I shall go now and have a chat with your mother.

I am afraid that she will want comforting more than you do." "Yes," Reuben agreed, "I am afraid so.

Somehow I don't seem to take it to heart much.

I shall feel it more afterwards, perhaps; but at present, the whole thing seems so extraordinary that I can't quite realize that I am in danger of being sent to Botany Bay.