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The fairy set out immediately, and an hour afterwards she was seen arriving in a chariot of fire, drawn by dragons.,"Supper—slice of toast and an apple." Why the apple? Why supper at all?,“Where is my cap?” With his free hand he felt his bare head. Looking around the luckless boy saw his headgear in the middle of the font and turned to rescue it. The water became deeper, until he stood in it almost to his arm-pits.,"How sad Nicholas looks!" says Mona, suddenly.,Geoffrey, moving to one side, stands where he can no longer be seen, feeling instinctively that the ebbing life before him finds its sole consolation in the thought of Mona. She is all he desires. From her he gains courage to face the coming awful moment, when he shall have to clasp the hand of Death and go forth with him to meet the great unknown.,"Yes; but she did not know what she was doing!",He completed his chores and went thoughtfully back up the flower-edged path to the house. "There's one good thing about Mary's crossness," he reflected, "it don't last long. She'll be her old cheerful self ag'in by now.","There is something in that, certainly," says Captain Rodney, with feeling. "I wonder, now, what great and charitable deed I could do.","What has he done?" asks Geoffrey, somewhat bewildered and greatly distressed at her apparent grief.,Mona smiles too in return, though still heavy at heart.,Without vouchsafing a glance of recognition to the Australian, she sweeps past, leaving them again alone. Paul laughs aloud.,"I am afraid it is too late for me to take your advice, doctor," he said, merrily. "I am in love.".