Bernardine smiled.
"If you wish it," she answered.
Mrs. Reffold nodded and hastened away, and Bernardine continued her game, and, having finished it, rose to go.
The Reffolds were rich, and lived in a suite of apartments in the more luxurious part of the Kurhaus.
Bernardine knocked at the door, and the nurse came to open it.
"Mrs. Reffold asks me to visit Mr. Reffold," Bernardine said; and the nurse showed her into the pleasant sitting-room.
Mr. Reffold was lying on the sofa. He looked up as Bernardine came in, and a smile of pleasure spread over his wan face.
"I don't know whether I intrude," said Bernardine; "but Mrs. Reffold said I might come to see you."
Mr. Reffold signed to the nurse to withdraw.
She had never before spoken to him. She had often seen him lying by himself in the sunshine.