2/16 "There, my dear! You're better, I can see. I thought as I should never see your bright eyes again." Columbine put forth a trembling hand with a curious feeling that it did not belong to her at all. "Have I been ill ?" she said. "Why, it's more than a week you've been lying here, and how I have worrited about you! Prostration following severe shock was what the doctor called it, but it looked to me more like a touch of brain fever. |