"Kitty, what _can_ I do?
I have been such a--such a fool; worse than a fool.

Look!" holding up a paper partly burnt, and pointing to a scorched mark on the curtain.
"Oh!" gasped Kitty.

"O Dan, how did it happen?
What were you doing?
Reading in bed?
You might have been burnt to death." "I should have been--we all should have been, and the house burnt down, if it hadn't been for Anna," groaned Dan.

"It'll teach me never to read in bed again.

I thought I was quite wide awake too.