There Mrs.Wade visited her, and they talked for a long time; it was decided that Lilian should go to Pear-tree Cottage on the following afternoon, and remain in seclusion until the contest was over.
She came down at five o'clock.

Denzil, who had instructed the servants that she was at home to no one, sat with her in the library, holding her hand.
"I am quite well," Lilian declared again and again.

"I feel quite easy in mind--indeed I do.

As you wish it, I will go to Mrs.Wade's, but"---- "It will be very much better.

To tell you the truth, girlie, I shall feel so much freer--knowing you are out of the row, and in such good care." She looked at him.
"How wretched to be so weak, Denzil! I might have spared you more than half what you have suffered, if I hadn't given way so." "Nonsense! Most women would have played the coward--and _that_ you never could! You have stood it bravely, dear.