You can give him a hand now while I fetch the car round.
There are no steps to the Rectory, so he will be all right." His airy friendliness banished the last of Dot's confusion.

With a keen sense of relief she obeyed him.

Those few seconds of a common solicitude had bridged the gulf at least temporarily.
"This is real good of you," Lucas Errol said, as he took her arm again.
"And it's a luxury I ought not to indulge in, for I can walk alone on the flat." "Oh, it is horrid for you!" she said with vehemence.

"How ever do you bear it ?" "We can all of us bear what we must," he said, smiling whimsically.
"But we don't all of us do it well," said Dot, as she opened the Rectory gate.
"I guess that's a good deal a matter of temperament," said the American.

"A fellow like Nap, for instance, all hustle and quicksilver, might be expected to kick now and then.