“Gracious! Well, well! I’ll tell Thomas to ride over with this at once.”

“Miss Betty, you are marvellously good. I vow I can never thank⁠—”

“Bless the boy! And what about yourself, pray? I shudder to think of what might have happened to Di if you had not come up! ’Tis we can never thank you enough.”

Jack reddened boyishly and uncomfortably.

“Indeed, you exaggerate⁠—”

“Tut, tut! Well, go to sleep, and never worry about anything till I return. And you won’t try and get up?”

He shook with laughter.

“I swear I will not! Even an you never return, I will lie here, wasting away⁠—” But he spoke to space, for with a delighted laugh she had left the room.