"Oh, you did frighten me!" Again the red flush came into her face and she turned away from him.
"There they are coming.

Sure enough, they are coming," she cried with a sob in her voice.
"Steady, Kathleen," said Jack quietly.

"You won't blow up now, will you?
You have been so splendid! Can you hold on ?" She drew a deep breath, stood for a minute or two in perfect silence, and then she said, "I can and I will.

I am quite right now." Of course they exclaimed and stared and even wept a bit--at least the ladies did--but Jack's pipe helped out amazingly, and, indeed, he had recovered sufficient strength to walk unhelped to the car.

And while Tom sent the Packard humming along the smooth, resilient road he kept up with Nora and his sister a rapid fire of breezy conversation till they reached their own door.