Oh, the noise here from the street is dreadful! To think that I have to spend the whole evening in a hot room! I can't bear it; it will be too much for me!" "You shan't go out at all when you are so unwell," said Madeleine, decidedly.

"I will make such a nice excuse for you." "Oh, if I could only stop at home, or, even better still, if I could get to Sandsgaard; it is so quiet there!" said Fanny, with a sigh.
"Yes, that is just what you shall do," cried Madeleine.

"You take the carriage when it has left me, and drive out there.

I believe it is clearing up, and we shall have a lovely quiet moonlight evening." "Yes; I don't much mind what the weather is," said Fanny, with a sickly smile.

"But do you think it will do for me--" "You need not trouble about that.