You have work, much work to do for her and for others, and the present will suffice." When we stopped the operation, he attended to Lucy, whilst I applied digital pressure to my own incision.

I laid down, while I waited his leisure to attend to me, for I felt faint and a little sick.

By and by he bound up my wound, and sent me downstairs to get a glass of wine for myself.

As I was leaving the room, he came after me, and half whispered.
"Mind, nothing must be said of this.

If our young lover should turn up unexpected, as before, no word to him.