When I spoke of the dart which had so narrowly missed us, she turned so white that I feared that she was about to faint.
"It is nothing," she said, as I hastened to pour her out some water.
"I am all right again.

It was a shock to me to hear that I had placed my friends in such horrible peril." "That is all over," I answered.

"It was nothing.

I will tell you no more gloomy details.

Let us turn to something brighter.