“I am sure Jerry will forgive me.  Maybe if you will send me a paper and pencil—­I can write him a note now?  There’s no use waiting, is there?  Fairy will bring it, I am sure.”

But when a few minutes later, she heard a step in the hall outside, she laid her arm across her face.  Somehow she felt that the wonderful joy and love shining in her eyes should be kept hidden until Jerry was there to see.  She heard the door open, and close again.

“Put them on the table, Fairy dearest, and—­leave me for a little while, will you?  Thank you.”  And her face was still hidden.

Then the table by the bedside was swiftly drawn away, and Jerry kneeled beside her, and drew the arm from her face.

“Jerry!” she whispered, half unbelievingly.  Then joyously, “Oh, Jerry!” She gazed anxiously into his face.  “Have you been sick?  How thin you are, and so pale!  Jerry Harmer, you need me to take care of you, don’t you?”

But Jerry did not speak.  He looked earnestly and steadily into the joyful eyes for a moment, and then he pressed his face to hers.

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