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Geoffrey, stooping over to wake her with a kiss, marks all this, and also that her eyelids are tinged with pink, as though from excessive weeping.,"Now you are their friend forever," says Mona, in a pleased tone. "Once they do that, they mean to tell you they have adopted you. And they like very few people: so it is a compliment.","Yes," returns he with a smile. "I am Nicholas." He ignores the formal title. "Geoffrey, I expect, spoke to you of me as 'old Nick;' he has never called me anything else since we were boys.","Very well," says Mona, who is pale and thoughtful.,"My dear Oliver!" protests Lady Rodney, mildly.,"Perhaps Lady Rodney would not like it.",This is a bad beginning. Mr. Rodney, before replying, judiciously gains time, and makes a diversion by poking the fire.,"I'll tell you when I come back," says Geoffrey,—"if I ever do.",And now what remains to be told? But little, I think! For my gentle Mona has reached that haven where she would be!,"Open that door, Mrs. Geoffrey," says the doctor pointing to his right hand. "I saw you coming, and have prepared him for the interview. I shall be just here, or in the next room, if you should want me. But I can do little for him more than I have done.",It is Paul Rodney.,"I do not shrink from it," replies she, bravely: "I would brave anything to be friends with your mother.".