We don't think he is hurt much.

It happened in the wood the other side of Nellcombe Bottom, where 'tis said the ghosts of the brothers walk." She went on to give a few of the particulars, but none of the invented horrors that had been communicated by the boy.

"I thought it better to tell you at once," she added, "in case he should not be very well able to walk home, and somebody should bring him." Mrs.Melbury really thought matters much worse than she represented, and Grace knew that she thought so.

She sat down dazed for a few minutes, returning a negative to her step-mother's inquiry if she could do anything for her.

"But please go into the bedroom," Grace said, on second thoughts, "and see if all is ready there--in case it is serious." Mrs.Melbury thereupon called Grammer, and they did as directed, supplying the room with everything they could think of for the accommodation of an injured man.
Nobody was left in the lower part of the house.