"But then it is almost let?" said Dr. Arundel. "Yes; they will know in a day or two."
"I hate waiting," said Ada, sighing.
"It is hard for everybody," said Walter; "but sometimes it is just the lesson God has for us to learn."
His eyes rested for an instant on Christina, and he felt Nellie's hand slipped into his lovingly.
"I do not know anything much harder," said Dr. Arundel. "I see a great deal of that by the bedsides of my patients."
[CHAPTER XXIII.]
"MOTHER'S EYES ARE VERY TIRED."
"YOU have come to see me," said Christina rising, as Margaret Fenton was shown into her sitting room in Gower Street.