He started as he looked at her.
"You seem to have recovered already--you look quite a different woman!" he exclaimed.
She drank the water nevertheless.

"My unlucky nerves play me strange tricks, sir," she answered, as she set the empty glass down on a table at her side.
Mr.Keller took a chair and referred to his letter from Munich.
"My sister hopes to be with us some days before the end of the year," he resumed.

"But in her uncertain state of health, she suggests the thirtieth so as to leave a margin in case of unexpected delays.

I presume this will afford plenty of time (I speak ignorantly of such things) for providing the bride's outfit ?" Madame Fontaine smiled sadly.

"Far more time than we want, sir.