A PAIR OF BLUE
known as
EYES.
Dr. Granson came in the course of
He pronounced her
the afternoon.
system to be in a decided
nervous
state of disorder
forwarded some soothing draught, and gave orders that on no account whatever was she to play chess again.
The next morning Knight waited with a curiously
compounded
feeling for her entry
The female servants came
to breakfast.
to prayers at irregular intervals,
and
entered, he could not, to save his
in
as each
life,
avoid
turning his head with the hope that she
Mr. Swancourt besfan
mijzht be Elfride. readino;
somebody glided softly
Then
without waitinor for her.
glanced up:
kitchen-maid.
noiselessly;
in it
Knight
was only the
Kniiiht
thouo-ht
little
readinn^
prayers a bore.
He went first
out alone, and for almost the
time failed to recognise that holding
converse with Nature's charms was not tude.
On
ceived his
soli-
nearing the house again he per-
voung
friend crossing a slope
by
