The other made no remark, but still she lingered. Had she a suspicion that there was anything amiss?
She was a strange creature, anyhow, with that old-looking face, the great mass of thick black hair studded with gray, and the thick blue glasses.
Where had she seen some one of whom this creature reminded her so strangely and so strongly?
Even the tone of her voice, although it sounded hoarse and unnatural, was somehow familiar to her.
The very way in which Mrs. Brown crested her head she had seen somewhere before, and it had made quite an impression upon her at the time.
"I can not help thinking that she is always spying upon every movement of mine, and she listens—I am sure she does—to every word the doctor and I say; and these people who watch others so much always need watching themselves."
Seeing that Nadine Holt was determined to banish her from the sick-room, Dorothy quitted the apartment with a very heavy heart, though she could not have told why.
Chapter XXXIII.
The days that followed were dark ones to the Garner household, for Jessie began to fail rapidly.
She grew so weak that the entire household began to grow terribly alarmed over her condition. Even the doctor had grave apprehension for his patient.