“Drink! It will make you feel better!”
“She’s coming round, my Lord,” she heard another voice remark. “Her Ladyship’s only fainted.”
Then some of the darkness faded and Rocana could feel a burning sensation in her breast.
For some reason she could not understand she did not want to open her eyes and she was afraid.
Then the Marquis’s voice with a note in it that was different from what she had heard before said,
“Wake up, Rocana, wake up!”
Because she felt she had to do what he said, she opened her eyes and found he was bending over her, his face near to hers.
For a moment it was hard to focus her eyes.
Then she asked,
“Are – you – all – right?”
“I am all right, thanks to you. And now I am going to carry you upstairs. The doctor will be here as quickly as possible.”
“The – docto
