7/11 Oscar drew me aside out of hearing, while her attention was diverted from him. "_You_ were horrified at the first sight of me. Help me to keep her from suspecting it, for two months more--and you will be the best friend that ever man had." "Two months ?" I repeated. If there is no return of the fits in two months, the doctor will consider my recovery complete. Lucilla and I may be married at the end of the time." "My friend Oscar, are you contemplating a fraud on Lucilla ?" "What do you mean ?" "Come! come! you know what I mean! Is it honorable first to entrap her into marrying you--and then to confess to her the color of your face ?" He sighed bitterly. |