Wharton devoted himself, employing all his best arts.
"Dr.Clarke is not anxious about him," Mrs.Boyce said in a low voice to Marcella as they moved away.

"He does not think the attack will return for a long while, and he has given me the means of stopping it if it does come back." "How tired you look!" said Aldous, coming up to them, and speaking in the same undertone.

"Will you not let Marcella take you to rest ?" He was always deeply, unreasonably touched by any sign of stoicism, of defied suffering in women.

Mrs.Boyce had proved it many times already.
On the present occasion she put his sympathy by, but she lingered to talk with him.

Hallin from a distance noticed first of all her tall thinness and fairness, and her wonderful dignity of carriage; then the cordiality of her manner to her future son-in-law.