You have been talking too much." "It has done me an immense deal of good, Mrs.Conyers," Walter protested; while Claire exclaimed that they had hardly spoken a word, which indeed was the truth, for Walter had been feeling too dreamily happy to want to talk, and Claire had felt so shy and embarrassed, with Walter watching her, that she had been unable to hit on a single subject for remark.
Another two days, and Walter was well enough to get up and lie on a couch of heather, covered with the blanket, which Larry had prepared for him in the next room.

His voice had recovered its natural ring, and Claire had got over her unaccustomed shyness; and Mrs.Conyers, as she moved in and out, heard them laughing and chatting together, as they had done ten days before at the Hall..