When Captain Anthony had disappeared behind the Point , Alan turned to Lynde . She was sobbing softly and her face was wet with tears . Alan drew her head down on his shoulder . `` Sweetheart , the dark past is all put by . Our future begins with promise . All is well with us , dear Lynde . '' Like a child , she put her arms about his neck and their lips met . Marcella 's Reward Dr. Clark shook his head gravely . `` She is not improving as fast as I should like to see , '' he said . `` In fact -- er -- she seems to have gone backward the past week . You must send her to the country , Miss Langley . The heat here is too trying for her . '' Dr. Clark might as well have said , `` You must send her to the moon '' -- or so Marcella thought bitterly . Despair filled her heart as she looked at Patty 's white face and transparent hands and listened to the doctor 's coolly professional advice . Patty 's illness had already swept away the scant savings of three years . Marcella had nothing left with which to do anything more for her . She did not make any answer to the doctor -- she could not . Besides , what could she say , with Patty 's big blue eyes , bigger and bluer than ever in her thin face , looking at her so wistfully ? She dared not say it was impossible . But Aunt Emma had no such scruples .
With a great clatter and racket , that lady fell upon the dishes that held Patty 's almost untasted dinner and whisked them away while her tongue kept time XXXXX her jerky movements .
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