Rather than let it slip away she would be bold, if not brave.
'And besides,' she said, as if finishing her last speech, 'I believe I was more or less delirious during most of the time that you were with me.

Was I not ?' Sister Giovanna was sorely tempted to speak out.

But though it would be so easy to humiliate the woman who had injured her, it looked too much like vengeance; and she remembered how she had told the sick woman that she forgave, with all her heart, meaning what she said, but it had been hard to keep the passion-flower of forgiveness from fading as soon as it had opened.
'You were rather quiet on the whole,' she answered with truth, and so calmly that the Princess was relieved.

'I wish all my patients were as submissive.' 'Really?
How delightful! No one ever said I was a submissive person, I am sure!' 'You were very much so.

And now, since your friend has not come yet, and you will wish to wait for him, I must ask you to let me leave you, for I am on duty and must not stay here too long.