ather,
before Holdsworth had gone away. That was worst of all. She turned her
face to the wall, and cried as soon as her mother's back was turned.
Betty was laying the cloth for the early dinner. Her sharp eyes saw the
state of the case.

'Now, Phillis!' said she, coming up to the sofa; 'we ha' done a' we can
for you, and th' doctors has done a' they can for you, and I think the
Lord has done a' He can for you, and more than you deserve, too, if you
don't do something for yourself. If I were you, I'd rise up and snuff
the moon, sooner than break your father's and your mother's hearts wi'
watching and waiting till it pleases you to fight your Own way back to
cheerfulness. There, I never favoured long preachings, and I've said my
say.'

A day or two after Phillis asked me, when we were alone, if I thought
my father and mother would allow her to go and stay with them for a
couple of months. She blushed a little as she faltered out her wish for
change of thought and scene.

'Only for a short time, Paul. Then--we will go back to the peace of the
old days. I know we shall; I can, and I will!'

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