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"I am so glad they have let me see you, though I _am_ only to speak in a / whisper, and to stay just one half-hour and no more. You darling thing! / How pretty you look in that dear little cap! " And Katie Vavasour, who / had been allowed, as a great favour, to visit her much-loved / sister-in-law, pressed her fresh young lips to the invalid's forehead, / and took her seat beside the bed preparatory to a "quiet talk."
"I am glad you came too, dear," Sophy rejoined. "It is so dull without / Arthur, and he has been gone away so long -- many hours, I am sure. What / o'clock is it now? Three, I am sure; and he left me long before twelve. / Where do you think he is?"