This doubt, however, she soon ended, for she asked, as he had been asked before.
"Do you think it likely he may become conscious again ?" He shook his head.
She sighed.
"It is better so, no doubt, but I wish so much for five minutes even." Then she remembered that she was speaking out her thoughts to one who was not in her secret.

She hesitated a moment, but as her eye fell upon Lucia, she decided to trust this one more.

Her voice trembled, however, as she spoke.
"You have seen already," she said, "that we are not strangers; I think I ought to tell you the truth.

I am his wife; we were married long ago in England, and separated when Lucia was a baby." Doctor Hardy bowed.

He did not know exactly what to say, and saw no necessity for confessing that he had, some time ago, surmised pretty nearly the facts he was now told.
Mrs.Costello went on: "I intended to acknowledge my marriage, but since it can be of no benefit to my husband, my friends have persuaded me not to do so.