She was evidently watching and listening for his coming, for as soon as the door was partly open, she half-rose from the couch on which she was lying and stretched out her arms to him.
In an instant he was kneeling at her side.

"My darling," he whispered.
"My darling! Are you better ?" "I am quite out of pain, John, only a little weak.

In a few days I shall be all right." But John, looking into the white face that had once been so radiant, only faintly admitted the promise of a few days putting all right.
"I have been lonely today dear, so lonely! My mother did not come, and Mother Hatton has not even sent to ask whether I was alive or dead." "Yet she is very unhappy about your condition.

Jane, my darling Jane! What is it that induces these attacks?
Does your medical man know ?" "If so, he does not tell me.

I am a little to blame this time, John.