"Oh! let us go. I cannot be patient here. I shall not get well here. I want to forget."
So the arrangements went on: and Captain Lennox came, and with him news of Edith and the little boy; and Margaret found that the indifferent, careless conversation of one who, however kind, was not too warm and anxious a sympathiser, did her good. She roused up; and by the time that she knew she might expect Higgins, she was able to leave the room quietly, and await in her own chamber the expected summons.

'Oh! let us go. I shall not get well here. I want to forget.'
Captain Lennox came, and with him news of Edith and the little boy; and Margaret found that his careless conversation did her good. By the time that Higgins arrived at her house that evening, she was ready to greet him.
