She was still sobbing and trembling.
"What's the matter, Mary ?" called Phil from the hall.

"Were the Indians after you again ?" "Oh, it was awfuller than Indians," wailed Mary, in a shrill, excited voice.

"It was the worst nightmare I ever had! I can't shake it off.

I'm scared yet." "Tell us about it," said Mrs.Sherman, soothingly.

"That's the best remedy, for the terror always evaporates in the telling, and makes one wonder how anything foolish could have seemed frightful." "I--was being married," wailed Mary, "to a man I couldn't see.