She fell upon his breast, and strove to suppress her tears.
"Thy mother ?" he said.

"Does she sleep ?" "She sleeps,--ah, yes!" and the tears gushed forth.
"I thought--eh! I know not WHAT I have thought.

But do not weep: I shall be well now,--quite well.

She will come to me when she wakes,--will she ?" Viola could not speak; but she busied herself in pouring forth an anodyne, which she had been directed to give the sufferer as soon as the delirium should cease.

The doctor had told her, too, to send for him the instant so important a change should occur.
She went to the door and called to the woman who, during Gionetta's pretended illness, had been induced to supply her place; but the hireling answered not.