"I be afraid ?" she echoed.
"Certainly not.

Why should I be?
I've never been afraid before.
What d'you exactly mean by that, Bunting ?" "Oh, nothing.

I only thought you might feel funny-like, all alone on this ground floor.

You was so upset yesterday when that young fool Chandler came, dressed up, to the door." "I shouldn't have been frightened if he'd just been an ordinary stranger," she said shortly.

"He said something silly to me--just in keeping with his character-like, and it upset me.