“Well, why didn’t you, Page?”

“Why, Laura, honey, don’t be cross. You don’t know how rushed everything was. I didn’t even try to see Landry.”

“Did he seem very busy?”

“Who, Landry? I⁠—”

“No, no, no, Curtis.”

“Oh, I should say so. Why, Laura, I think, honestly, I think wheat went down to⁠—oh, way down. They say that means so much to Mr. Jadwin, and it went down, down, down. It looked that way to me. Don’t that mean that he’ll lose a great deal of money? And Landry seemed so brave and courageous through it all. Oh, I felt for him so; I just wanted to go right into the Pit with him and stand by his shoulder.”

Laura started up with a sharp gesture of impatience and exasperation, crying: