I hope that in another week, or ten days at the latest, I shall have you out of this;" and he held out his hand to her.
She took it timidly, and would have raised it to her forehead, but Dick said, laughing: "That is not the way, Annie.

English girls don't treat their friends as if they were lords and masters.

They just shake hands with them, as if it were two men, or two girls." "I shall know better, in time," she said, with a faint smile, though her eyes were full of tears.

"I want to do something, though I don't know what.

You saved my life from the tiger, and now you are going to save me again.