When he saw her, he pulled up. She gave him a formal bow, and was about to pass him, when the hurt expression on the invalid's face caused her to stop irresolutely by his side.
"At last!" he said.
Mavis looked at him inquiringly.
"I could bear it no longer," he went on.
"Bear what?"
He did not reply; indeed, he did not appear to listen to her words, but said:
"I feared you'd gone for good."
"I've seen nothing of you either."
"Then you missed me? Tell me that you did."
"I don't know."