I ought to do so; and, mamma, I could not be happy without seeing him.

He is not just like a brother or a brother-in-law, such as Harry and Alaric; we are not bound to each other as relations are; but yet I feel that something does bind me to him.

I know he doesn't love me as I love him; but yet I think he loves me dearly; and if I speak to him now, mamma, now that I am--that I am so ill, perhaps he will mind me.

Mamma, it will be as though one came unto him from the dead.' Mrs.Woodward did not know how to refuse any request that Katie might now make to her, and felt herself altogether unequal to the task of refusing this request.

For many reasons she would have done so, had she been able; in the first place she did not think that all chance of Katie's recovery was gone; and then at the present moment she felt no inclination to draw closer to her any of the Tudor family.