Without a word to warn her of your restoration to life, she finds herself suddenly face to face with you, a living woman--and this at a time when it is easy for any one who looks at her to see that she is in delicate health.

What is there wonderful, what is there unaccountable, in her fainting under such circumstances as these ?" The question was plainly put.

Where was the answer to it?
There was no answer to it.

Mercy's wisely candid statement of the manner in which she had first met with Grace, and of the accident which had followed had served Mercy's purpose but too well.

It was simply impossible for persons acquainted with that statement to attach a guilty meaning to the swoon.