The Curate's Awakening, The Lady's Confession & The Baron's Apprenticeship (Complete Trilogy). George MacDonald

arms, and held him on his knees until he reached the manor house, when he carried him upstairs and laid him on the sofa. When they had brought him round a little, he undressed him and put him to bed.

      "Do not leave me," murmured Leopold, just as Helen entered the room, and she heard it.

      Wingfold looked to her for the answer he was to make. Her bearing was much altered: she was both ashamed and humbled.

      "Yes, Leopold," she said, "Mr. Wingfold will, I am sure, stay with you as long as he can."

      "Indeed I will," assented the curate. "But I must run for Mr. Faber first."

      "How did I come here?" asked Leopold, opening his eyes large upon Helen after swallowing a spoonful of the broth she held to his lips.

      But, before she could answer him, he turned sick, and by the time the doctor came was very feverish. Faber gave the necessary directions, and Wingfold walked back with him to get his prescription made up.