Of course you must be
very calm too; there must be no excitement."
"No, no," Nina murmured, in the same low voice, and she followed him
up-stairs.
On entering the sitting-room she glanced apprehensively at those
strangers; but Francie, divining in an instant who she was and why
Maurice had brought her hither, immediately came to her and pressed her
hand, in silence.
Maurice went into the sick-room.
"Linn," said he, cheerfully, "I've brought you a visitor; but she can't
stay very long; she will come again some other time. You've always been
asking about Miss Ross, and why she didn't come to see you; well, here
she is!"
Lionel slowly opened his tired eyes and looked towards the door; but he
seemed to take no interest in the girl who was standing there, pale,
trembling, and quite forgetting all she had been enjoined to do. Lionel,
with those restless, fatigued eyes, regarded her for but a second--then
he turned away, shaking his head. He had seen that illusory phantom so
often!
"Linn," said his friend, reproachfully, "when Miss Ross comes to see
you, are you not going to say a word to her?"
It was Nina herself who interrupted him.
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