Once it had meant something, a long time ago.

It had even now disturbed the water, and made it cease to lap so near her lip.
* * * * * It was at this moment that one doctor had raised his eyes to the other, and Lady Walderhurst had stirred.
When Walderhurst left his place beside his wife's bed, Dr.Warren went with him to his room.

He made him drink brandy and called his man to him.

"You must remember," he said, "that you are an invalid yourself." "I believe," was the sole answer, given with an abstracted knitting of the brows,--"I believe that in some mysterious way I have made her hear me." Dr.Warren looked grave.

He was a deeply interested man.