No other desires on earth had been left to her.

Her life had not taught her to want many things.

And now--: "Oh! please don't be unhappy! If I could only keep you from being unhappy--until it is over!" she broke out all unconsciously one day.

And then was smitten to the heart by the grief in Dowie's face.
That was the worst of it all and sometimes caused Dowie's desperate hope and courage to tremble on the brink of collapse.

The child was thinking that before her lay the time when it would be "all over." A patient who held to such thoughts as her hidden comfort did not give herself much chance.
Sometimes she lay for long hours on the sofa by the open window but sometimes a restlessness came upon her and she wandered about the empty rooms of the little castle as though she were vaguely searching for something which was not there.