Jem wanted Dill to know once and for all that he wasn't scared of
anything: "It's just that I can't think of a way to make him come out
without him gettin' us." Besides, Jem had his little sister to think of.
When he said that, I knew he was afraid. Jem had his little sister
to think of the time I dared him to jump off the top of the house: "If I
got killed, what'd become of you?" he asked. Then he jumped, landed
unhurt, and his sense of responsibility left him until confronted by the
Radley Place.
http://www.eden.rutgers.edu/~sujith/mockingbird.txt
