Graeme.'
'I have often seen you, and wished to know you. I am sorry to bring you
this trouble.'
'You must not say so,' she replied, 'but let me do all for you that I
can. And now the doctor says you are to lie still.'
'The doctor? Oh! you mean Connor. He is hardly there yet. You don't know
each other. Permit me to present Mr. Connor, Mrs. Mavor.'
As she bowed slightly, her eyes looked into mine with serious gaze, not
inquiring, yet searching my soul. As I looked into her eyes I forgot
everything about me, and when I recalled myself it seemed as if I
had been away in some far place. It was not their colour or their
brightness; I do not yet know their colour, and I have often looked into
them; and they were not bright; but they were clear, and one could look
far down into them, and in their depths see a glowing, steady light.
As I went to get some drugs from the Black Rock doctor, I found myself
wondering about that far-down light; and about her voice, how it could
get that sound from far away.
I found the doctor quite drunk, as indeed Mr.
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