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It is only a bolster, Lady Kew, and I don't keep him in a noisy room towards the street," said Lady Walham. "Ho! how do you do? This is the way to him, I suppose;" and she went to another door it was a cupboard full of the relics of Frank's illness, from which Lady Walham's mother-in-law shrunk back aghast.
As the terrible anxiety during the illness had been Lady Walham's, so was hers the delight of the recovery. The commander-in-chief of the family, the old lady at Baden, showed her sympathy by sending couriers, and repeatedly issuing orders to have news of Kew. Sick-beds scared her away invariably.
With some fears yet regarding her son, for many of the books with which the good lady travelled could not be got to interest him; at some he would laugh outright, with fear mixed with the maternal joy that he was returned to her, and had quitted his old ways; with keen feminine triumph, perhaps, that she had won him back, and happiness at his daily mending health, all Lady Walham's hours were passed in thankful and delighted occupation.
Your servant had better see to your room, Lady Kew. That next is mine; and I keep the door, which you are trying, locked on other side." "And I suppose Frank is locked up there!" cried the old lady, "with a basin of gruel and a book of Watts's hymns." A servant entered at this moment, answering Lady Walham's summons. "Peacock, the Countess of Kew says that she proposes to stay here this evening.
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