zures from which
she had recovered, and of which she must never know. I set to work to
persuade her to tell me all she knew.

At last she yielded, and said, 'Well, I awoke as from a deep sleep,
and found myself lying on a couch, with a man's face bending over
mine. I could not help exclaiming, "Henry!'"

'Then did he resemble me?' I asked.

'Only in this--that in his eyes there was the expression which has
always appealed to me more than any other expression, whether in
human eyes or in the eyes of animals. I mean the pleading, yearning
expression of loneliness that there was in your eyes when they were
the eyes of a little, lame boy who could not get up the gangways
without me.'

'Ah, the egotism of love!' I exclaimed. 'You mean, Winnie, that
expression which my unlucky eyes had lost when we met upon the sands
after our childhood was passed.'

'But which love,' said she, 'love of Winnie, sorrow for the loss of
Winnie, have brought back, increased a thousandfold, till it gives me
pain and yet a delicious pain to look into them. Oh, Henry, I can't
go on; I really can't, if you look--'

She burst into tears.

When she got calmer she proceeded.

'It was only in the expression of your eyes that he resembled you.
He was much older, and wore spectacles. He, on his part, gave a start
when he looked into my eyes. It seemed to me that he had been
expecting to see something in them which he did not find there, and
was a little disappointed. I then heard voices in the room, which was
evidently, from the sound of the voices, a large room, and I looked
round. I saw that there was another couch close to mine, but nearly
hidden from view by a large screen between the two couches. Evidently
a woman was lying on the other couch, for I could see her feet; she
was a tall woman, for her feet reached out much beyond my own.'

'Good heavens, Winnie,' I exclaimed, 'what on earth is coming? But I
promised not to interrupt you. Pray go on, I am all impatience.'

'Well, at the sound of the voices the gentleman started, and seemed
much alarmed--alarmed on my account, I thought.

'I then heard a voice say, "A most successful experiment. Look at the
face of this other patient, and see the expression on it."

'The gentleman bent over me, and hurriedly raised me from the couch,
and then fairly carried me out of the room. But you seem very
excited, Henry, you have turned quite pale.'

It would have been wonderful if I had not turned p