He stooped down also beside it.
"He's a grand little fellow," he said.

"Lali," he continued presently, "it is time Frank came home.

I am going to write for him.

If he does not come at once, I shall go and fetch him." "Never! never!" Her eyes flashed angrily.

"Promise that you will not.
Let him come when he is ready.
"He does not, care." She shuddered a little.
"But he will care when he comes, and you--you care for him, Lali ?" Again she shuddered, and a whiteness ran under the hot excitement of her cheeks.