Then the moth plunged for the light, about which she had been desperately fluttering this nervous while.

“You mentioned of your nursing someone? or perhaps I confused your meaning?”

“Ay, did I. You know him. Saint-Péray.”

The other put her away and got hurriedly to her feet.

You’re nursing him! You?”

“He brought him to me—told me to; told me to help him back to be a man, and win you yet.”

“Who brought him? Who told you?”

“There: I wasn’t to speak his name.”

“Nursing him? Where?”

“Why, in the little villa that he keeps for me.”