I am not sacrificing my life for anybody's comfort, and I can nevah have any little nieces and nephews to whom I can be one of those deah old aunts Betty talks about, and there is that dreadful teacup!" She did not hear Doctor Bradford's laughing answer, for Phil, turning his back on the others, looked down into her upturned face and began to hum, as if to himself, "_From the desert I come to thee!_" Only Mary understood the significance of it as Lloyd did, and she knew why Lloyd suddenly turned away and began passing her hands over the grass around her, as if resuming her search.

She wanted to hide her face, into which the color was creeping.
A train whistled somewhere far across the orchard, and Rob took out his watch.

The sight of it suggested something in line with the conversation, for when he had noted the time, he touched the spring that opened the back of the case.
"Never you mind, Little Colonel," he said, in a patronizing, big-brotherly tone.

"If nobody else will stand between you and that teacup, _I'll_ come to the rescue.

Bobby won't go back on his old chum.
_I'll_ bring you a four-leaf clover.