Have you come back ?' 'Why--yes.' 'Not expecting this time that what you had found would answer very well, I am less surprised and sorry than I might have been, Tip.' 'Ah! But that's not the worst of it.' 'Not the worst of it ?' 'Don't look so startled.

No, Amy, not the worst of it.

I have come back, you see; but--DON'T look so startled--I have come back in what I may call a new way.

I am off the volunteer list altogether.

I am in now, as one of the regulars.' 'Oh! Don't say you are a prisoner, Tip! Don't, don't!' 'Well, I don't want to say it,' he returned in a reluctant tone; 'but if you can't understand me without my saying it, what am I to do?
I am in for forty pound odd.' For the first time in all those years, she sunk under her cares.