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"Oh, yes," said Fanny, "I a so sweet as that about flowers in a sick-room; it so putme one at a time, when I

was ill at Cape Town"

There was no more sense to be had after those three once fell upon their

re betrayed her wakefulness by a movement in her

bed, Alison Willia,

"Ailie, dear, be it what itis worse than certainty"

"Oh, Er to tell"

"You dread so for

unconcern all the evening,is so bad while we share it"

"And I have frightened you about nothing"

"Nothing! nothing about Edward?"

"Oh, no, no!"

"And no one has made you unco that it can be, Ailie, and you need not

fear to tell me that I always knew that if he lived I must be prepared

for it, and you would not have hesitated to tell me of his death"

"It is not that, indeed it is not, Ermine, it is only this--that I found

to-day that Lady Temple's major has the same name"