In the evening they rode over to see Miss Matthews, and found her sitting up. "I feel better," she said, "and there's something in the air. I want to know why I have a nurse, and why Bettina went away while I was asleep?"
"And I want to know," said Anthony, sternly, "why you are out of bed?"
"Because I am better," said Letty Matthews, "there's nothing in this world that can cure a person like curiosity—and I had to know what was going on."
So Anthony told her, and she wept to think of the fate of the bird man with the broken wings.
But she was cheered by the coming of Captain Stubbs. He bore on a tray such a supply of delicious viands that Miss Matthews urged that Bettina and Anthony should stay and have supper.
Bettina could not eat.
"Please, I'm not hungry," she said, and went down the winding stairway, and when she came back her arms were full of roses.
"Will you let him have them in his room?" she asked Anthony.
"He shall see them first when he opens his eyes," Anthony promised; "they shall carry all of your messages to him."
In the hushed room at Harbor Light there was darkness—and there was the fragrance of many flowers.