"I go now for those doc'." A moment later the room was cleared, none but Dunwody remaining.
At last, then, they were alone together.
"Go away! Bring me Jeanne!" she cried at him.

His lips only tightened.
"May I not have Jeanne ?" she wailed again.
"Yes, you shall have Jeanne--you shall have anything you want," he answered at length, quietly.

"Only get well.

Forgive me all this if you can." Josephine's lips trembled.

"May I go ?" she demanded of him.
There was a strange gentleness in his voice.