'Somebody's trying to get in.

Oh, Mary, what _shall_ we do?
Oh, I am so frightened.

I shall die with fright.

Oh, I wish I had never come!' "I was on the verge of hysterics, or something of the kind.
"Mary, herself a little frightened, as she afterwards confessed--in the circumstances what young girl could have helped being so ?--turned to me quietly.

Something in the very tone of her voice seemed to soothe me.
"'Laura dear,' she said gravely, 'did you say your prayers last night ?' "'Oh yes, oh yes, indeed I did.