"Set down and let me tell you about it.

Yes, yes, you must.

If I tell you, you'll understand better.

There! there! don't you interrupt me yet and don't you look that way.

Do set down." She led him over to the rocking-chair and gently forced him into it.
He obeyed, although with no apparent realization of what he was doing.
Still with her hand on his shoulder she went on speaking.