CHAPTER ELEVENThe Marquis was suddenly aware of voices deliberately kept low and soft, the voices of two people talking very near him.
Unable at first to understand where he was and what had happened, he heard the voice of his valet saying,
“I pray your Ladyship to let me sit up with his Lordship tonight. You’ve been with him for four nights now and at his bedside all through the days as well. ’Tis too much for your Ladyship. Get an hour or so of sleep, I swear I’ll wake you if there be any change.”
“No, Jenkins, you have had as much to do as I have,” the Marquis heard Druscilla say in a gentle rather tired voice. “His Lordship was not as restless last night as he was the night before. I feel sure he is definitely getting better.”
“That is what the doctor says, my Lady, and he says too
