"It is good to be getting well again. I don't think I realised before how beautiful the world is."
"Our bit of it," said Pam.
"And yet I am no coward. When my time comes, I shall not be afraid to go. If only I could feel that you children were provided for!"
"Did that trouble you—then?" said Pam, in a low voice.
"It did," answered her father, "though I tried hard for faith and trust."
"Dear, darling dad!" cried Pamela suddenly. "Would it make you happier if I were to marry Lord Glengall?"
"I thought we had settled all that, Pam."
"Oh, yes, in that old life," said Pamela dreamily, "before you were ill. But things are altered now. It is just as well we don't know what's before us."
"But I am getting well, my little Pam."
"Ah, yes, thank God! You are getting well," said Pam. "But you haven't told me if it would make you happier for me to marry Lord Glengall."