"Please, sir, the doctor said particular you were not to talk, sir."
"D—n you and the doctor—get out of that, and shut the door!" cried the Baronet; and the woman vanished, scared.
"Give me your hand, Jennie darling, and don't look as if the sky had fallen. I'm not going to make my bow yet, I promise you."
"And then, I suppose, a duel," said Lady Jane, wringing her hands in an agony.
"Duel, you little fool! Why, there's no such thing now, that is, in these countries. Put fighting quite out of your head, and listen to me. You're right to keep quiet for a little time, and Wardlock is as good a place as any. I shall be all right again in a few days."
"I can look no one in the face; no—never again—and Beatrix; and—oh, Jekyl, how will it be? I am half wild."
"To be sure, everyone's half wild when an accident happens, till they find it really does not signify two pence. Can't you listen to me, and not run from one thing to another? and I'll tell you everything."
With a trembling hand he poured some claret into a tumbler and drank it off, and was stronger.
"He'll take steps, you know, and I'll help all I can; and when you're at liberty, by—I'll marry you, Jane, if you'll accept me. Upon my honour and soul, Jennie, I'll do exactly whatever you like. Don't look so. What frightens you? I tell you we'll be happier than you can think or imagine."
Lady Jane was crying wildly and bitterly.