I will go and have another search for the book you wanted;" and with that she turned, and gave a little start, for there stood the doctor! "Oh, Doctor Jermyn!" she exclaimed, "I did not know you were there!" and held out her hand.

"Our patient is going on wonderfully now.

You will let me see you before you leave the castle ?" Therewith she left the room, and hastening to her own, saw in the mirror the red of a lie, said to herself, "What will Cosmo think ?" and burst into tears--the first she had shed since the day she found him.
The doctor was not taken in, but Cosmo was troubled and puzzled.

In Jermyn's talk, however, and his own simplicity, he soon forgot the strangeness of this her behaviour..