The lines of anxious care deepened upon the lady's face as she replied.
"I have said that I consider her perfectly safe."
"Mentally as well as physically?"
"How can I tell? As yet I have seen no signs of derangement in her."
"Ah!" exclaimed Drummond, eagerly, "then you refuse to credit his announcement that she is mad!"
"If you mean Loyd, I believe that he has spoken in accordance with his convictions."
"He may be mistaken," was the terse reply.
Serena Effingham glanced in a startled way from one to the other of the young men, and it was Hubert who came to her relief.
"Colley has been urging the necessity of calling in another physician," he explained. "But I tell him, mother, that we have reason to have implicit faith in Loyd's ability; besides, it would seem like insult to send for any one now that she is out of danger."
Drummond passed his hand over his curling hair with a gesture eloquent of impatient doubt.