For a few moments she gazed intently at the face she knew so well, but then her glance turned quickly toward the corner where the other nurse had sat beside the shaded lamp.

That should be her place, too, but she could not bear to be so far from him.
Noiselessly she brought a chair to the bedside and sat down so that she could look at his face.

Since she had been in the room she had felt something new and unexpected--the deep, womanly joy of being alone to take care of the beloved one in the hour of his greatest need.

She would not have thought it possible that a ray of light could penetrate her darkness, or that in her deep distress anything approaching in the most distant degree to a sensation of peace and happiness could come near her.

Yet it was there and she knew it, and her heart rested.