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Rh who had tried to run across the track in front of the engine, and had got caught in the cow-catcher or something like that. He said she was more frightened than hurt.”

“Then what are we waiting for?”

“Oh, they have to get statements from witnesses, and all that kind of thing. See, they are carrying her into the station.”

Brenda, looking over Nora’s shoulder, saw four men carrying something into the waiting-room. They caught a glimpse of light skirts, and saw a flower-trimmed hat  hanging from the arm of one of the men.

“Just think how dreadful if she had been killed! I do hope that it is n’t any worse than the brakeman said.”

One of the passengers who had gone to the scene of the accident now came back and reported that the girl was  merely bruised and shaken up, and that she would soon  come to herself. It was her sister whom Nora had seen standing excitedly beside the track. She had got across safely, and at first glance had feared that the other one was killed.

“Well, I should think that we might start on now,” said Brenda, allowing impatience to get the upper hand,  now that she was satisfied as to the nature of the accident.

“Just think how cross Edith will be, waiting for us all this time. We ought to have been in Lynn an hour ago.” Brenda looked at the watch which she wore on her arm in a bracelet which her cousin Julia had given her the  Christmas before.