I came out here to try to study it out. The nurse-woman,
domn pretty girl, says if you don't get back before midnight, it's
all up. You're just on time, Dannie. The talk in the house is that
she'll wink out if you don't prove to her that she didn't drive you
away. She is about crazy over it. What did she do to you?"
"Nothing!" exclaimed Dannie." She was so deathly sick she dinna
what she was doing. I can see it noo, but I dinna understand then."
"That's all right," said Jimmy. "She didn't! She kapes moaning over
and over "What did I do? You hustle in and fix it up with her. I'm
getting tired of all this racket."
All Dannie heard was that he was to go to Mary. He went up the
lane, across the garden, and stepped in at the back door. Beside
the table stood a comely young woman, dressed in blue and white
stripes. She was doing something with eggs and milk. She glanced at
Dannie, and finished filling a glass. As she held it to the light,
"Is your name Macnoun?" she inquired.
"Yes," said Dannie.
"Dannie Macnoun?" she asked.
"Yes," said Dannie.
"Then you are the medicine needed here just now," she said, as if
that were the most natural statement in the world. "Mrs. Malone
seems to have an idea that she offended you, and drove you from
home, just prior to her illness, and as she has been very sick, she
is in no condition to bear other trouble. You understand?"
"Do ye understand that I couldna have gone if I had known she was
ill?" asked Dannie in turn.
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