Next moment he was ashamed of himself. He must
change the subject. He actually smiled. 'Hoo did ye leave Miss
Tod? Still drinkin'?'
Christina may not have heard him. She was surveying the ward.
Macgregor's only near neighbour was apparently sound asleep, and
the only patient sitting up was intent on a game of draughts with a
nurse. But had all been awake and watching, she would still have
found a way.
She passed her handkerchief lightly across her eyes and put it in
her sleeve. Then with the least possible movement she knelt down
by the bedside.
'Christina!' he exclaimed under his breath, for her face was near
to his.
Her fingers went to the neck of her white blouse and drew out a
narrow black ribbon. From it hung, shining, the tiny wreckage of
her engagement ring.
'Mac, dear,' she whispered, 'can--can we no ha'e it mended?'
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