"
"She is always madder at the full moon," I said.
"To-morrow morning we will send for Mary. She will help us to bear it.
When I think of her faith I wonder that I should have had so little."
"I believe you are happier," I said wonderingly.
"I feel as though I had passed out of the hands of men into the hands of
God," she replied, caressing my hair with her disengaged hand, for I had
left my chair to sit down on the hearthrug by her.
Again I had that strange, acute sense of listening; but there was a
storm outside, and the wind cried in the chimney and rattled the
windows, and a branch of a tree tapped against the shutters--that was
all.
"While your grandfather lives you will not be homeless," she said: "and
who knows but that Theobald may be able to clear off the mortgages?"
My grandfather slept peacefully, as though he needed sleep; and now we
talked and now we were silent, and the night wore on.
We could not move for fear of disturbing him. Dido came and lay on the
rug beside me, and slept with her chin resting on my foot. I think my
grandmother dozed a little and the fire went low for I was afraid to
stir to replenish it. The old dog moaned and whimpered in her sleep, and
my grandmother came out of her doze to say that she had been dreaming of
Luke; and nodded off again.
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