I ought to hav e been satisfied with that--but oh, how could I be so near him and not long to see him?
The old doctor with whom I had been speaking discovered, I suppose, that I was in trouble about something.

He was so kind and fatherly, and he seemed to take such interest in me, that I confessed everything to him.
After he had made me promise to be careful, he told the night-nurse to let me take her place for a little while, when the dim light in the room would not permit his patient to see me too plainly.

He waited at the door when we tried the experiment.

Neither he nor I foresaw that Lord Howel would put such a strange interpretation on my presence.

The nurse doesn't approve of my coming back--even for a little while only--and taking her place again to-night.