10/31 Then he spoke in a slow, puzzled voice, saying: "I have had such a funny dream. I dreamed that a spirit came and kissed me. I did not see it, but I think it must have been my mother's." "Why ?" asked Isobel. Because I don't count that." "No, I understand," said Isobel, thinking of her own father, then added hastily, "it must be sad not to have a mother." "It is," he answered, "especially when one is ill as I have been, and must lie so long in bed with pains in the head. You know I had an abscess in the ear and it hurt very much." "I didn't know. |