The nurse summons Lady Etwynde. She is horrified at this occurrence. It will be so bad for her patient. "The shock is enough to kill him"—so she murmurs as they busy themselves with the unconscious woman.
Keith watches them quietly, not even anxious or disturbed. All his life seems to have become one great calm now.
"Kill me——" he says, as the nurse's words reach him. "She has given me life!"
And indeed it seems as if she had, for from that hour slowly but surely he begins to mend.
The weakness and exhaustion against which his physicians had battled, no longer hold his strength in their control. Hope, peace, joy have come to him with Lauraine's presence, and with them comes also the desire to live.
"It is wonderful!" say the doctors.
"It is wonderful!" echoes Lady Etwynde, standing by Lauraine's side some two days later, and noting the change that at last leaves room for hope.
The blue eyes look up to one face—the face that has haunted his life, and seems to have called him back across the border-land on which his feet have rested.
"It is not wonderful," they seem to say, "it is only—love."