I had no pain, only heat and restlessness.

But to-night I thought I must call you, because I feel very ill, and besides I have something that I must tell you, you know, and you told me you would hear it when you could find a quiet time.

Can you spare the time to-night, though it is so late?
I think I could go to sleep better after I have told it.

It has worried me so long." Elsli spoke feebly but eagerly; and Aunt Clarissa, full of anxious fear, could not but assent to her request, though she was almost afraid to have her go on; for she saw that the little girl was really very ill.
She sat down by the bedside holding Elsli's trembling hand in her own and gently pressing it from time to time.

Elsli began:-- "I want to tell you something that I ought to have spoken of long ago.
It was not right for me to go on as I have been doing without telling you; and I am afraid Mrs.Stanhope will be very much displeased when she knows about it" Clarissa could scarcely control her astonishment.