How should he meet Lucy?
What could he say?
If he could only evade her.
No; Lucy was watching for him, with a worried expression on her face, which deepened when she saw Chester's.
"I must see your father," he said with no effort to even take her hand.
"Papa is not any better, I fear." "But I must see him.

Where is Uncle Gilbert ?" "Shall I call him ?" "Yes, _please_." Lucy returned, and Uncle Gilbert met Chester in the hall.
"He is very nervous again this morning, and I don't think you ought to excite him," explained the brother.
"I must see him--just for a minute.

I'll not engage him in any extended conversation." "That you cannot do as he can hardly speak.

His trouble affects him in that way." "Let me see him just for a moment--alone, please.

Is he awake ?" "Oh yes; he's not that bad.