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He frowned, and replied, almost harshly: "Thanks I am not in the least tired How should I be? Why do you think

so?"

Nell shrank a little

"I--I thought you looked pale and tired," she said, in a voice so low

and sweet that he was smitten with shaetically, and passing his

hand over his brow as if to erase the lines which the scene with Lady

Lucille had etched "Your convalescent invalid is a trying kind of

ani"

"There is nothing to forgive," she said quietly "It was thoughtless of

, and I deserve the lectureme Please come in to tea at once, or it will be repeated--the

lecture, I -roonity before her tea table; and, having got hian at once: "So thoughtless of Eleanor to keep you out so long! Youthe first days of recovery from

illness are, and how even a little exertion will produce absolute

collapse Noill you have a little brandy in your tea, Mr Vernon? A