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The effect on Marillier of this first meeting with Rachel, was so bad that both Mr Ffolliott and Doctor Carus Spencer forbade him to see her again for several days. Sympathetic Nurse Dalison pleaded sweetly for the engaged pair, but the surgeon only snarled in reply.
'Ruel Bey will have plenty of opportunity to make love when his head is cured,' said that inhuman person with a grim smile. 'In the meanwhile he can give his heart a rest, and from all accounts I should say that the organ needs repose.'