Of course there's a wound--" She was pale now with emotion and anxiety.

The three children realised that it was very bad for their father, and the house was silent, anxious.
"But he always gets better," said Paul after a while.
"That's what I tell him," said the mother.
Everybody moved about in silence.
"And he really looked nearly done for," she said.

"But the Sister says that is the pain." Annie took away her mother's coat and bonnet.
"And he looked at me when I came away! I said: 'I s'll have to go now, Walter, because of the train--and the children.' And he looked at me.

It seems hard." Paul took up his brush again and went on painting.

Arthur went outside for some coal.