Not only on account of the delicacies--I must ask you to believe that.

Did my eye brighten at the mention of Fortnum and Mason?
I am afraid it did." She laughed softly.

She did not pause to think that it was to be her daily task to tend him and help to make him stronger in order that he might go away without delay.

She only knew that every moment of the next few weeks was going to be full of a greater happiness than she had ever tasted.

As we get deeper into the slough of life most of us learn to be thankful that the future is hidden--some of us recognise the wisdom and the mercy which decree that even the present be only partly revealed.
"As a matter of fact," she said lightly, "I suppose that you loathe all food ?" "Loathe it," he replied.