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Only, I hope he would not come tearing up here and take you away from me!" Jane smiled through a mist of tears. "If he wanted me, Mr. Dalmain, I should have to go to him," said Nurse Rosemary.
Having her will be wonderful beyond words; but it will not be the same as having you." Nurse Rosemary was receiving her reward, and she appeared to find it rather overwhelming. As soon as she could speak, she said, gently: "Don't excite yourself over it, Mr. Dalmain. Believe me, when you have been with her for five minutes, you will find it just the same as having me.
But Garth Dalmain, poor boy, is so sublimely lacking in self-consciousness that he never questions whether he can win his ideal. He possesses her already in his soul, and it will be a fearful smack in the face when she says 'No, as she assuredly will do, for reasons aforesaid.
Dalmain; particularly in this beautiful air." "Have you had a case before in a house where they kept a motor?" Nurse Rosemary hesitated. "Yes, I have stayed in houses where they had motors, and I have been in Dr. Brand's. He met me at Charing Cross once with his electric brougham." "Ah, I know," said Garth. "Very neat. On your way to a case, or returning from a case?"
"Because you gave a little sigh of relief after reading the first line, and another, as you folded it and replaced it in the envelope." Nurse Rosemary laughed. "You are getting on so fast, Mr. Dalmain, that soon we shall be able to keep no secrets. My letter was from " "Oh, don't tell me," cried Garth quickly, putting out his hand in protest.
When one comes to think of it, I believe every form of human love a mother's only excepted is primarily selfish. The best chance for Dalmain is that his helpless blindness may awaken the mother love in you. Then self will go to the wall." "Ah me!" sighed Jane. "I am lost and weary and perplexed in this bewildering darkness. Nothing seems clear; nothing seems right.
Garth Dalmain ceased speaking, and the silence which followed suddenly assumed alarming proportions, seeming to Jane like a high fence which she was vainly trying to scale. She found herself mentally rushing hither and thither, seeking a gate or any possible means of egress. And still she was confronted by the difficulty of replying adequately to the totally unexpected.
There they rested a moment, then dropped again, without rising higher. "Yes," said Mrs. Parker Bangs, "are you playing around with Mr. Dalmain to-morrow forenoon, Miss Champion?" Jane suddenly flushed crimson, and then was furious with herself for blushing, and hated the circumstances which made her feel and act so unlike her ordinary self. She hesitated during the long dreadful moment.
Jane pressed her hand over her bosom. Ah, how able she was always to fill her boy's life with pure pleasure. How little of the needless suffering of the blind should ever be his if she won the right to be beside him always. "Well, Mr. Dalmain," said Nurse Rosemary, "I motored to the station with Sir Deryck yesterday afternoon, and I noticed all you describe.
When the others were finished, and Nurse Rosemary took up this letter, the room was very still. They were quite alone. Bees hummed in the garden. The scent of flowers stole in at the window. But no one disturbed their solitude. Nurse Rosemary took up the envelope. "Mr. Dalmain, here is a letter, sealed with scarlet wax. The seal is a helmet with visor " "I know," said Garth.
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