Or commit suicide.

She's said she would afore now if--if--" "Nonsense! She won't do that, you needn't worry." He burst into another laugh, but checked himself, as he saw the look of absolute distress on poor Kyan's face.
"Never mind, Mr.Pepper," he said.

"We'll think of some plan to smooth matters over.

I'll go home with you now and we'll let her out together." "Will you, Mr.Ellery?
Will you, honest?
Say, by godfreys mighty, I'd get down on my knees and thank you this minute if--if I wa'n't in such a hurry.

Come right on; come quick!" It was a silent procession of two that wended its way out of the pines and across the fields, by the brook and the pond, where the evening mists were rising and the frogs chanting their good-night song, through the gathering twilight shades, across the main road and up the lighthouse lane.