You shall keep quiet, and I will go to sleep." So he did.

But he did not loose his hold of Daisy; and she lay, still as happiness could make her, with her head upon his breast.

She knew, she was conscious, that he must be very feeble yet, to go to sleep in that way; but she was with him again, and in his arms, and her heart was so full of joy that it could do nothing but overflow in silent thanksgivings and prayers.

Daisy would not have stirred till he did, no matter how long it might have been; but there came an interruption.

A door opened, and Mrs.Randolph appeared on the threshold, and so soon as she saw Daisy beckoned her to come to another room.