I will come , Herbert . ' She solemnly promised , Jeanette . We made a death-tryst of it . And I know she will come . '' He had fallen asleep then and after his recovery he had not alluded to the matter again . I had forgotten it , but I recalled it now as I sat on the steps among the geraniums that June evening . I liked to think of Margaret ... the lovely girl who had died so long ago , taking her lover 's heart with her to the grave . She had been a sister of my grandfather , and people told me that I resembled her slightly . Perhaps that was why old Mr. Lawrence had always made such a pet of me . Presently the doctor came out and nodded to me cheerily . I asked him how Mr. Lawrence was . `` Better ... better , '' he said briskly . `` He will be all right tomorrow . The attack was very slight . Yes , of course you may go in . Do n't stay longer than half an hour . '' Mrs. Stewart , Mr. Lawrence 's sister , was in the sickroom when I went in . She took advantage of my presence to lie down on the sofa a little while , for she had been up all the preceding night . Mr. Lawrence turned his fine old silver head on the pillow and smiled a greeting . He was a very handsome old man ; neither age nor illness had marred his finely modelled face or impaired the flash of his keen , steel-blue eyes .
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