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"That, for my life-work," said Lloyd Searight. As she drew back from him an instant later Bennett all at once and very earnestly demanded: "Lloyd, do you love me?" "With all my heart, Ward." "And you will be my wife?" "You know that I will."
Lloyd even heard Miss Truslow remark: "Yes, that's very true, but if it isn't sized it will wrinkle in damp weather." Rownie came to Lloyd's door and knocked, and, without waiting for a reply, said: "Dinneh's served, Miss Searight," and Lloyd heard her make the same announcement at Miss Bergyn's room farther down the hall. One by one Lloyd heard the others go downstairs.
The still country air, now that Hattie was able to take the short journey, would be more to her than many medicines, and the ponies and Lloyd's phaeton would be left there with Lewis for her use. "And write often, won't you, Miss Searight?" exclaimed Hattie as Lloyd was saying good-bye. Lloyd shook her head. "Not that of all things," she answered.
"That may be true or not," he answered with an indifferent movement of his shoulders. "It is all one to me. I have made up my mind that you shall leave this house this morning, and believe me, Miss Searight, I shall carry my point." For the moment Lloyd caught her breath. For the moment she saw clearly with just what sort of man she had to deal.
The doctor sent me into the country to call back the roses to my pallid cheek. So I came down here to geologise. I presume that excuse will do as well as another." Then suddenly he cried: "Hello, steady there; quick, Miss Searight!" It all came so abruptly that neither of them could afterward reconstruct the scene with any degree of accuracy.
"Go down to your breakfast, Miss Searight," said the doctor. "I'll stay here the while. The housekeeper will show you to your room." But before breakfasting Lloyd went to the room the housekeeper had set apart for her a different one than had been occupied by either of the previous nurses changed her dress, and bathed her face and hands in a disinfecting solution.
Oh, you can look at the address," added Bennett as Ferriss, turning the envelope bottom side up, was thrusting it into his breast pocket; "you know her even better than I do. It's Lloyd Searight." Ferriss's teeth shut suddenly upon his pipestem. Bennett rose. "Tell Muck Tu," he said, "in case I don't think of it again, that the dogs must be fed from now on from those that die.
Hattie had ideas of her own as to propriety, and so rose to her feet as Bennett came up, and after a moment's hesitation made him a little bow. Bennett at once gravely took off his cap. "Excuse me," he said as though Hattie were twenty-five instead of twelve. "Is Miss Searight at home?" "Oh," exclaimed Hattie, delighted, "do you know Miss Searight?
"But but but just how bad will it hurt, Miss Searight?" inquired Hattie, looking at her, wide-eyed and serious. "Dear, it won't hurt you at all; just two or three breaths of the ether and you will be sound asleep. When you wake up it will be all over and you will be well." Lloyd made the ether cone from a stiff towel, and set it on Hattie's dressing-table.
"Am I going to get well, am I going to get well, Miss Searight?" Hattie, once more conscious, raised her voice weak and faint. Lloyd was on her knees beside her, her head bent over her. "Hush; yes, dear, you are safe." Then the royal bronze-red hair bent lower still. The dull-blue eyes were streaming now, the voice one low quiver of sobs.
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