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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?"