All the time, while she was being
carried in those kind arms, Daisy kept repeating to herself, "I'll
have some bread and milk, for I am a little hungry, and I'll rest for
perhaps an hour, and then I'll go away on foot with my dear Pink to
find Mrs. Ellsworthy."
But when the child and the woman reached the house in the village
Daisy was too faint and weary to take more than a spoonful or two of
bread and milk, and long before the night arrived she had forgotten
that she meant to undertake any journey, and lay with burning cheeks
and bright, feverish eyes on Hannah's bed in her little home.
CHAPTER XLIV.
TOO MUCH FOR DOVE.
Mrs. Dredge's remarks had by no means been lost on Noel. When he left
Miss Egerton's house he consulted his watch, and found that he had
still an hour to spare before he need try to catch his train. He
thought for a moment or two, recalled certain expressions on Daisy's
face, certain words which dropped from her lips, and, above all, a
look which had filled her pretty eyes on the one and only occasion
when they had met Dove together.
Noel began to feel more and more certain that this man, to whom he had
taken a great dislike, had something to say to all the child's misery.
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