Redlaw was very earnest indeed in wishing me to do), his hand
felt for mine, so that some one else was obliged to take my place
and make believe to give him my hand back. Oh dear, oh dear," said
Milly, sobbing. "How thankful and how happy I should feel, and do
feel, for all this!"
While she was speaking, Redlaw had come in, and, after pausing for
a moment to observe the group of which she was the centre, had
silently ascended the stairs. Upon those stairs he now appeared
again; remaining there, while the young student passed him, and
came running down.
"Kind nurse, gentlest, best of creatures," he said, falling on his
knee to her, and catching at her hand, "forgive my cruel
ingratitude!"
"Oh dear, oh dear!" cried Milly innocently, "here's another of
them! Oh dear, here's somebody else who likes me. What shall I
ever do!"
The guileless, simple way in which she said it, and in which she
put her hands before her eyes and wept for very happiness, was as
touching as it was delightful.
"I was not myself," he said. "I don't know what it was - it was
some consequence of my disorder perhaps - I was mad. But I am so
no longer. Almost as I speak, I am restored. I heard the children
crying out your name, and the shade passed from me at the very
sound of it.
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