She
did swerve sufficiently to the other side to remark that to cross the
haw-haw would save at least a mile by the road if one were in a hurry.
And then her loyalty caused her to repeat, with extra care, to John
Derringham in a whisper the fib which Mrs. Cricklander wished--namely,
that she, the fair Cecilia, was there ready to come to him and sit up
with him, and do anything in the world for him, and was only prevented
by the doctor's strict orders, fearing the slightest excitement for the
patient--and that these orders caused her great grief.
John Derringham's eyes looked grateful, but he did not speak.
His head ached so terribly and his body was wracked with pain, while his
ankle, not having been set for twenty-four hours, had swollen so that it
rendered its proper setting a very difficult matter, and caused him
unspeakable suffering. Sir Benjamin Grant had to come down to Wendover
twice again before things looked in more hopeful state.
And what agonizing thoughts coursed through his poor feverish
brain--until through sheer weakness there would be hours when he was
numb.
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