“You will not speak?”
“My mission is at an end, dear. It is impossible for me to stay. I shall not be here.”
Isabel looked up wonderingly, and then raised her face to kiss Elisia’s lips as she slowly clasped her neck.
The next moment she was passionately clasped to the nurse’s heart.
“God bless you, darling! Good-bye!” was sobbed in Isabel’s ear, and the next minute she was alone.
Chapter Twenty Nine.
Jumping at Conclusions.
About half an hour after Isabel and Elisia had parted, Aunt Anne came down from her room. She had tapped gently at her brother’s door, which was opened by the nurse, who was as calm and self-possessed as ever.