I wish you could calm her, and get her to pull herself together a little." "I will try," said Kitty gravely.

"And there is Betty.

I am longing to see her." "I doubt Miss Betty's complete joy at seeing you," smiled the doctor.
"I think there may be some embarrassment mingled with her pleasure.
Her return was--well, _she_ might think it ignominious.

Luckily no one in the house but myself knows that she had really run away.

I am afraid, though, that she has something on her mind that is troubling her--something in connection with Mrs.Pike's illness." Kitty recalled Betty's letter, and her heart sank.