10/12 Her high-boned cheeks were thinner than of old, and her face wore a more excited expression; otherwise, there was little difference in her. She had been sent from the asylum as cured. Caius gave her a civil "Good-day." "She has come back to me!" said the woman. I've allers wanted to tell you I liked that stone; but she isn't dead--she has come back to me!" Now, although the return of the drowned child had been an idea often in his mind of late, that he had merely toyed with it as a beautiful fancy was proved by the fact that no sooner did the mother express the same thought than Caius recognised that she was mad. "She is grown a big girl; she has curls on her head, and she wears a marriage-ring. |