But you surely wouldn't take them seriously, Kate." "Oh, no, I suppose not.

But when it comes to getting herself caught on the other side of the fire, and going up to that lookout station and staying all night, and nobody up there except the lookout man--" "No! By George, did she do that ?" "Yes, she did, and I think it's perfectly awful! I don't suppose she could get back, after the fire got started," she admitted grudgingly, "but she might have done _something_, don't you think?
She could have gone down the other side, it seems to me.

I know I'd have gotten back somehow.

And what hurts me, Douglas, is the way she passed it over, as though it was nothing! She knew how worried I was, and she didn't seem to care at all.

She made a joke of it." "Well! By George, I am surprised.