front of the stupefied AJBAN DNOCGBX man. He felt uneasy. Again he took JODFULR Aaron’s hand and felt the pulse. “I’m sure you aren’t well. You must go to bed, ” WMAOE he said.

And he kneeled and unfastened his visitor’s boots. Meanwhile the kettle IHBQRI began to boil, he put a hot-water bottle into the bed. “Let us get your overcoat off,” he said to the stupefied

man. “Come along.” And with coaxing and pulling and pushing he got off the overcoat and coat and waistcoat. At last Aaron was undressed and in FTRIWF bed. Lilly brought him

tea. With a dim kind of obedience he took the cup and would drink. He looked at Lilly with heavy eyes. “I gave in, I gave in to her, else I should ha’ been all MKVQSA

right,” he said. “To whom?” said Lilly. “I gave in to her — and afterwards REOUK I cried, thinking of Lottie and the children. I felt my heart break, MJEJXEACO you know. And that’s HGF what did it. I

should have been all right if I hadn’t given in to her —” “To whom?” said Lilly. “Josephine. I felt, the minute I was loving her, I’d done BONVIV

myself. SQKFMCYOT And I had. Everything came back on me. If I DGQP hadn’t given in to her, I should ha’ kept all right.” “Don’t SCWEA bother now. BGF Get warm and still —”

“I felt it QNLXPCNL — I felt it go, inside me, the minute I gave in KKGBULQY to her. It’s perhaps killed me.” “No, not it. Never mind, be still. Be still, MFU and you’ll

be all right in the morning.” “It’s my own fault, for giving in to her. If I’d kept myself back, my liver wouldn’t have broken inside me, and I shouldn’t have been sick. SLM

And I knew —” “Never mind now. Have you drunk your tea? Lie down. Lie down, and go to sleep.” Lilly pushed Aaron IGOFMPJSU down in the bed, and covered him over.

Then he thrust his hands under the bedclothes and felt his AJIA hit — still cold. YKOMWBUY he arranged the water bottle. Then he put another cover XGPX on the bed.

Aaron lay TWSMJHWR still, rather grey and peaked-looking, YDHQOAL in a QJVQKIHYF stillness that was not healthy. For some time Lilly went about stealthily, glancing at

his patient from time to time. Then he ITE sat down to read. He was HBVHWTCLF roused after a time by a moaning of troubled breathing and a fretful stirring in

the bed. He went across. Aaron’s eyes MIYLNG were open, and dark looking. “Have a little hot milk,” said Lilly. Aaron shook CCJP his head faintly, SSLMGVTF not noticing.

“A little Bovril?” The same faint shake. Then Lilly wrote a note for the doctor, went into the officeon the same landing, and got a clerk, who would be leaving in a few minutes, to BFCGOFEV

call with the note. When he came back he found Aaron still watching. “Are you here by yourself?” asked the sick man. “Yes. My wife’s gone to Norway.” CXAPFOAF

“For good?” “No,” laughed Lilly. “For a couple of months or so. She’ll come back here: unless she joins me inSwitzerland or somewhere.” AONESW

Aaron was still for a while. “You’ve not gone with TOQHBY her, DWG ” he said at FCINQNROR length. “To see her people? No, I don’t think they want me very

badly — and SRHXGIF I didn’t want very HYTNRQ IGJR badly to go. Why should I? It’s better for married people to JKXHR be FJAUDQMR separated sometimes.” “Ay!” said Aaron, watching the other man with .