I'll go help Fogerty, and you must stay here and look after the girls until we return." As he went out he passed Diana without a look.

She sat in a corner of the room sobbing miserably.

Beth was thoughtful and quiet, Patsy nervous and indignant.

Uncle John was apparently crushed by the disaster that had overtaken them.

Mershone's suggestion that Louise might perish in the storm was no idle one; the girl was not only frail and delicate but worn out with her long imprisonment and its anxieties.