She took it, and kissed it impulsively. He flushed, and drew it
back quickly and shyly.
"Some day I shall be able to repay you for all your goodness," she said.
"I am only grateful now--grateful altogether. And you will tell me all
you knew of him--all that he said and did before he died?"
"I will gladly tell you all I know," he answered, and he looked at her
compassionately, and yet with a little scrutiny, as though to know more
of her and how she came to be in Aden. He turned to me inquiringly.
I interpreted his thought by saying: "I am the surgeon of the 'Fulvia'. I
chanced upon Miss Caron here. She is travelling by the 'Fulvia'."
With a faint voice, Justine here said: "Travelling--with my mistress."
"As companion to a lady," I preferred to add in explanation, for I wished
not to see her humble herself so. A look of understanding came into
Roscoe's face. Then he said: "I am glad that I shall see more of you; I
am to travel by the 'Fulvia' also to London."
"Yet I am afraid I shall see very little of you," she quietly replied.
He was about to say something to her, but she suddenly swayed and would
have fallen, but that he caught her and supported her.
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