But I know if you had heard at Castle Warlock that a stranger was lying ill somewhere about the place, you would have gone to him at once! It was very wrong of me, and I am sorely punished!" "Never mind," said Cosmo; "it's all right now.

I have you, and it makes me well again all at once.

When I see you standing there, looking just as you used, all the time between is shrivelled up to nothing, and the present joins right on to the past.

But you look sad, Joan!--I MAY call you Joan still, mayn't I ?" "Surely, Cosmo.

What else?
I haven't too many to call me Joan!" "But what makes you look sad ?" "Isn't it enough to think how I have treated you ?" "You didn't know it was me," said Cosmo.
"That is true.