Blind Love

If the patient's health had altered for the worse, and if the tendency

to relapse had proved to be noticeable after medicine had been

administered, Fanny's first suspicions might have taken a very serious

turn. But the change in Oxbye--sleeping in purer air and sustained by

better food than he could obtain at the hospital--pointed more and more

visibly to a decided gain of vital strength. His hollow checks were

filling out, and colour was beginning to appear again on the pallor of

his skin. Strange as the conduct of Lord Harry and Mr. Vimpany might

be, there was no possibility, thus far, of connecting it with the

position occupied by the Danish guest. Nobody who had seen his face,

when he was first brought to the cottage, could have looked at him

again, after the lapse of a fortnight, and have failed to discover the

signs which promise recovery of health.