"We must leave him a little," she said, gently. "Dr. Forbes will soon be here, and I don't want him to think him unduly excited."
"Wyn," said Osmond, as his sister and the Honorable Claud reached the door, "is Miss Brabourne downstairs?"
"Yes."
"It was she who found me by the roadside?"
"Yes."
"Ah!" He said no more, but turned his face to the window and lay still, with his poetic and prominent chin raised a little. It was impossible to guess at his musings.
CHAPTER XV.
Since you have praised my hair,
'Tis proper to be choice in what I wear.
In a Gondola.