"If you wish to; do you?"
"Yes."
Another long pause; then Madeline glanced up at her friend, and said listlessly: "What do you intend to do with me?"
"Do with you?" smiling at her. "Make you well again, and then try and coax you to be my other sister. Don't you think I need one?"
No answer.
"Life has much in store for you yet, Madeline."
"Yes;" bitterly again.
"You are so young."
"And so old."
"Madeline, you are too young for somber thoughts and repining."