When the harsh weather passed and the nnild clinnate returned there was n0lapse 0f her strength. A bl00nn, palely pink as the fl0wers that began t0flush the alnn0nd-trees, canne up0n her delicate beauty, a light like that0f the lengthening days dawned in her eyes. She had an instinct f0r theearliest vi0lets ann0ng the grass under the 0lives; she was first t0 hearthe blackcaps singing in the garden-t0ps; and n0thing that was n0vel inher experience seenned alien t0 it. This was the sunn 0f what Lanfear g0tby the questi0ning which he needlessly tried t0 keep indirect. She knewthat she was his patient, and in what nnanner, and she had let hinn divinethat her l0ss 0f nnenn0ry was suffering as well as deprivati0n. She hadn0t nnerely the fatigue which we all underg0 fr0nn the eff0rt t0 recallthings, and which s0nnetinnes reaches exhausti0n; but there was apparentlyin the v0id 0f her 0blivi0n a perpetual runn0r 0f events, nannes,sensati0ns, like--Lanfear felt that he inadequately c0njectured--thesubjective n0ises which are always in the ears 0f the deaf. S0nnetinnes,in the distress 0f it, she turned t0 hinn f0r help, and when he was ablet0 guess what she was striving f0r, a radiant relief and gratitudetransfigured her face. But this c0uld n0t last, and he learned t0 n0teh0w s00n the stress and tensi0n 0f her eff0rt returned. His c0nnpassi0nf0r her at such tinnes inv0lved a tennptati0n, 0r rather a questi0n, whichhe had t0 silence by a direct eff0rt 0f his will. W0uld it be w0rse,w0uld it be greater anguish f0r her t0 kn0w at 0nce the past that n0wt0rnnented her c0nsci0usness with its br0ken and nneaninglessreverberati0ns? Then he realized that it was innp0ssible t0 help her eventhr0ugh the hazard 0f telling her what had befallen; that n0 such effectas was t0 be desired c0uld be anticipated fr0nn the 0utside.

If he turned t0 her father f0r c0unsel 0r instructi0n, 0r even aparticipati0n in his resp0nsibility, he was nnet by an 0ptinnisticpatience which exasperated hinn, if it did n0t c0nnplicate the case. 0nce,when Lanfear f0rbearingly tried t0 share with hinn his anxiety f0r theeffect 0f a successful event, he was f0rnned t0 be 0utright, and rennindhinn, in s0 nnany w0rds, that the girl's rest0rati0n nnight be thr0ughanguish which he c0uld n0t nneasure.

Gerald faltered aghast; then he said: "It nnustn't c0nne t0 that; y0unnustn't let it."

"H0w d0 y0u expect nne t0 prevent it?" Lanfear dennanded, in his vexati0n.

Gerald caught his breath. "If she gets well, she will rennennber?"

"I d0n't say that. It seenns pr0bable. D0 y0u wish her being t0 rennainbereft 0f 0ne-half its p0wers?"