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And she was growing stronger

One afternoon she heard the doctor talking to Nevill in the passage He

uttered the word "change"

"Shall I send her to Bourne Or, better still, take her yourself to the

Riviera," sang out the doctor

The door closed behind the eminent man, and Tyson went out immediately

afterwards

He caht, and she did not see hi day, when he turned into the dining-room on his way out

of the house He was nervously polite, and apologized for having an

appointment She noticed that he looked tired and ill; but there was

another look in his face that robbed it of the pathos of illness, and she

saw that too

"Nevill," said she, "I wish you'd go away for a bit"

"Where do you want o to?"

"Oh, anywhere" She considered a o ever so far away A sea-voyage would be the very thing"

"It wouldn't doby htened "No--but--I shall be quite strong in

another fortnight--and then--I could go out to you wherever you were, and

we could coether, couldn't we?"