Noel Vanstone with an enmity
and distrust which we are quite ready to believe that lady has done
nothing to deserve. Whatever strange misunderstanding there may have
been in your household, is your business (if you choose to keep it to
yourself), and not ours. All we have any right to do is to tell you what
the doctor says. His patient has been delirious; he declines to
answer for her life if she goes on as she is going on now; and he
thinks--finding that she is perpetually talking of her master--that
your presence would be useful in quieting her, if you could come here at
once, and exert your influence before it is too late.
"What do you say? Will you emerge from the darkness that surrounds you
and come to St. Crux? If this was the case of an ordinary servant, I
could understand your hesitating to leave the delights of your honeymoon
for any such object as is here proposed to you. But, my dear fellow,
Mrs. Lecount is not an ordinary servant. You are under obligations to
her fidelity and attachment in your father's time, as well as in your
own; and if you _can_ quiet the anxieties which seem to be driving this
unfortunate woman mad, I really think you ought to come here and do so.
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