But who was she, and who was the Neil of whom she had inadvertently
spoken? and why was she so like the Bessie, Grey had described?
"Blue eyed, golden-haired, with a face like an angel," she repeated to
herself, as she descended the stairs to the lower deck and walked to the
door, around which several women were gathered with anxious concern upon
their faces.
CHAPTER IX.
BESSIE IS PROMOTED.
"She is took very bad, mum," one of the women said to Lucy, as she stood
aside to let her pass into the close, hot cabin, where Bessie was
talking wildly and incessantly of her father and mother, and of Grey,
while Mrs. Goodnough and Jennie tried in vain to quiet her.
"What is it? How long has she been this way?" Lucy asked, and the
voluble Jennie replied:
"An' sure, mum, just afther ye left it sthruck to her head, and she wint
out of herself intirely, and goes on awful about her father and mother,
who died in Rome with the faver and is buried in some stonehape or the
likes of it, and of Grey Jerry, who, she says, is on the ship and won't
come to her.
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