9/19 Oh, you will give me a great deal to do! That is one of the things I love you for. It was one of the things I loved my dear Dr.McQueen for." She looked up suddenly. "I have told him also about you." "Lately, Grizel ?" "Yes, in my parlour. It was his parlour, you know, and I had kept nothing from him while he was alive; that is to say, he always knew what I was thinking of, and I like to fancy that he knows still. In the evenings he used to sit in the arm-chair by the fire, and I sat talking or knitting at his feet, and if I ceased to do anything except sit still, looking straight before me, he knew I was thinking the morbid thoughts that had troubled me in the old days at Double Dykes. |