It's nothing but Adah now.

I see her name in everything.

Hugh thinks of nothing else, and why should he?
She's his sister, and I--oh! I'm nobody but a beggarly servant's brat.

I wish I was dead! I wish I was dead! and I will be pretty soon." This was their parting, and the doctor left her room a soberer, sadder man than he had entered it.

Half an hour later, and he, with Anna, was fast nearing Versailles, where they were joined by Mr.Millbrook, and together the three started on their homeward route.
Rapidly the tidings flew, told in a thousand different ways, and the neighborhood was all on fire with the strange gossip.