"Once; didn't you hear me scream?" Phillis tried to
make me quit, but I told her I wouldn't unless they'd let you
come. I saw you on the walk, you know. I'm better with you,
Miggie; a heap better since you made me cry. It took a world of
hardness and pain away, and my head has not ached a single time
since then. I'm most well; ain't I, Arthur."
"Miss Hastings certainly has a wonderful influence over you,"
returned Arthur, and as the evening wore away, Edith began to
think so, too.
Even the servants commented upon the change in Nina, who appeared
so natural and lady-like, that once there darted across Arthur's
mind the question, "what if her reason SHOULD be restored! I will
do right, Heaven helping me," he moaned mentally, for well he knew
that Nina sane would require of him far different treatment from
what Nina crazy did. It was late that night when they parted, he
to his lonely room where for hours he paced the floor with
feverish disquiet, while Edith went from choice with Nina to the
DEN, determined to share her single bed, and smiling at her own
foolishness when once a shadow of fear crept into her heart.
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