I'd get all ready, and kind of make a sort of a sound, and then I'd have to quit." "She may have thought you had a cold," said Fred, still keeping his back turned.
"I expect maybe she did--though I don't know; most of the time she didn't seem to notice me much, kind of." "She didn't ?" "No.

She was too upset, I guess, by what she was thinkin' about." "But if it hadn't been for that," Fred suggested, "you mean she'd have certainly paid more attention to who was sitting on the bench with her ?" "Get out! You know how it was.

Everybody those few days thought we were goin' to have war, and she was just sure of it, and it upset her.

Of course most people were a lot more upset by what those Dutchmen did to the _Lusitania_ than by the idea of war; and she seemed to feel as broken up as anybody could be about the _Lusitania_, but what got her the worst was the notion of her country wantin' to fight, she said.

She really was upset, too, Fred; there wasn't any puttin' on about it.