Fortunately I am alone, and can share it with her as well as not."
What Lucy Grey willed to do she went about at once, and in less than an
hour she had interviewed the captain, the purser, and the doctor, and,
while the passengers were at dinner, Bessie was lifted carefully in
Jennie's strong arms and taken to Miss Grey's state-room, where she was
laid upon the lounge under the window, as the place where she would have
more room and better air. The change seemed to revive her at once, and
when, after her dinner, Miss Grey returned to her state room, she found
Bessie sleeping quietly, with the faithful Jennie keeping watch beside
her. The next morning she was still better, and Jennie, who had insisted
upon sitting beside her during the night, was delighted to find her
fever gone and her reason restored.
Very wonderingly Bessie looked around her when she first awoke from a
sleep which had lasted several hours, and then, as her eyes fell upon
Jennie, she asked:
"What is it, Jennie? What has happened? This is not the steerage! Where
am I?"
"And indade ye are in heaven, an' that's the angel who brought you
here," Jennie replied, nodding toward Miss Grey, who came at once to
Bessie's couch.
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