“’And has she not inquired after me since?’
“’Not once.’
“’And don’t know whether I am yet sensible or not?’
“’She does not yet know that.’
“’Well,’ I replied, ‘I think they don’t care much for me, I think not at all, but the time may come when they will act differently.’
“’No, miss, they think, or affect to think, that you have injured them; but that cannot be, because you could not be cunning enough to dispose your aunt to leave you all, and so deprive them of what they think they are entitled to.’
“’I never could have believed half so much.’
“’Such, however, is the case.’
“’What can I do?’
“’Nothing, my dear, but lie still till you get better, and don’t say any more; but sleep, if you can sleep, will do you more good than anything else now for an hour or so, so lie down and sle
