Oh, how happy I should be if I could see you smile again!" "How I would smile if I saw you looking happy!" "Then smile at once, sir," she could say presently, "for see how happy I am looking." And as she beamed on him once more he smiled as well as he was able to.

Grizel loved him so much that she actually knew when that face of his was smiling, and soon she was saying gaily to his eyes: "Oh, silly eyes that won't sparkle, what is the use of you ?" and she pressed her own upon them; and to his mouth she said: "Mouth that does not know how to laugh--poor, tragic mouth!" He let her do nearly all the talking.

She sat there crooning over him as if he were her child.
And so the flag was saved.

He begged her to let him tell their little world of his love for her, and especially was he eager to go straight with it to the doctor.

But she would not have this.