Why was he leaving?
Because---- "No, no," he said, answering their looks; "the danger is past.

He seems almost as well as ever." "Thank God!" stammered Mary.

Then a thought struck her, and she looked up sharply and asked, "Will it come back again ?" "Yes," was his straightforward answer.
"When ?" "From time to time, at irregular periods.

But in its fatal shape, as I hope, not for some years." "The verdict might have been worse, dear," said Morris.
"Yes, yes, but to think that _it_ has passed so near to him, and he quite alone at the time.

Morris," she went on, turning to him with an energy that was almost fierce, "if you won't have my father to live with us, I won't marry you.