Because, dearest, you are a very agreeable person, with enough wit and humanity to make it worth the world's while to conspire to make you do what will give it most pleasure, and let yourself get most--and that's why I've come." "What a person of importance I am!" answered Hylda, with a laugh that was far from mirthful, though she caught the plump, wrinkled little hand of the Duchess and pressed it.

"But really I'm getting well here fast.

I'm very strong again.

It is so restful, and one's days go by so quietly." "Yet, I'm not sure that it's rest you want.

I don't think it is.