Can't I tempt you out for a little way in my automobile?
It's a delightful afternoon." She shook her head.
"You are very kind," she said, "but I seem to be the only person for whom my uncle asks sometimes, and he is awake just now.

I should not like to be away." "He is conscious, then ?" Littleson asked.
"Perfectly," she answered.
"I suppose it is quite useless asking to see him ?" "Quite.

The doctor would never allow it.

He has to be kept absolutely quiet, and free from excitement," "I hope," he said, "that he did not hear anything of the attempted burglary the other night ?" Virginia smiled very faintly, and her dark eyes rested for a moment upon his.
"No!" she answered, "we kept that from him.

You see nothing was really stolen.