"As you mean the question I cannot answer it — There is nothing declarative, Miss Elizabeth. Yes," he said kindly, meeting and answering her face, — "you must wait yet awhile longer."
Elizabeth sat down again, and looked down.
"Are you troubled with fears for yourself?" he said gently, taking a chair near her.
"No —" Elizabeth said, and said truly. She could have told him, what indeed she could not, that since his coming into the house another feeling had overmastered that fear, and kept it under.
"At least," she added, — "I suppose I have it, but it doesn't trouble me now."
"I came down on principle," said he, — "to exchange the office of nurse for that of physician; — thinking it probably better that you should see me for a few minutes, than see nobody at all."
"I am sure you were right," said Elizabeth. "I felt awhile ago as if my head would go crazy with too many thoughts."
"Must be unruly thoughts," said Winthrop.
"They were," said she looking up.
"Can't you manage unruly thoughts?"