Presently when he came back Glenn got up hastily.
“Is she worse?”
“No, she wanted to know if it was not your voice that she heard.”
“May I see her, if it is not asking too much?”
His face was full of sorrow as the old man bowed and led the way. “She wanted to see you.”
Esther’s eyes were closed; her head lay deep in the pillow, the waves of her hair flowing back from the whiteness of her face. “Esther,” he whispered very softly. She opened her eyes and her lips broke in a smile. He held out both hands toward her and caught hers in their double grasp, looking down in her face.
“How are you? I didn’t know until this minute that you were not well. I came to take you to the one place we’ve never been,” he told her.
“I thought maybe you had come to help me over the rock.” She smiled faintly.
“Well, be very quiet; don’t worry about anything; we’ll do all that for you. You know you promised to play the piece you learned last week for me. Let’s see, it was to be at the spring; that was as close as we dared venture to Indian Well, where we met.”
“Don’t give me out.” Her voice was weak and low. “I expect to do that for your farewell; you must get back to college in time.”