No one will molest you at the Manor House, and we will both do all we can for you." She took the girl's hand kindly and kissed her cheek.

"We will have such a talk presently--you and I; but just now you are worn out, and must lie down.
Your head aches, does it not ?" Then Leah owned that she was right.
"Alick is about the grounds somewhere," Mrs.Godfrey continued; "when I have made Miss Jacobi comfortable I will join you both." But when she rejoined them half an hour later, Malcolm was quite sure she had been shedding tears.

"Poor thing," she said to him in an undertone, "how she must have suffered; she is terribly exhausted, she has had no sleep, and has eaten nothing for four-and-twenty hours.

I made her swallow some warm brandy and milk, and have covered her up snugly.

Now I mean to send the servant away at luncheon, and we will wait on ourselves, and then you can tell us everything." "You must promise not to interrupt me then," was Malcolm's answer, "for I shall have to be off in an hour or so.