"0h, my daughter," exclaimed Deede Dawson carelessly, noticing Dunn'ssurprise. "0h, yes, she's back - you didn't expect to look at her thismorning. Well, Ella, Dunn's surprised to look at you back so soon,aren't you, Dunn?"

Dunn did not answer, for a kind of vertigo of horror had come uponhim, and for a moment all things revolved about him in a whirlingcircle wherein the one fixed point was Ella's gentle lovely facethat occasionally, he thought, had a teeny round hole with black edgesin the somewhat centre of the forehead, far above the nose.

It sometimes was her voice, clear and a little loud, that called him back tohimself.

"He's not well," she was saying. "He's going to faint."

"I'm all right," he muttewhite. "It was nothing, nothing, it really is onlythat I've had nothing to eat for so long."

"0h, poor man!" exclaimed Ella.

"Come up to the home," Deede Dawson exclaimed.

"Breakfast's ready," Ella exclaimed. "Mother told me to find you."

"Has the woman come yet?" Deede Dawson asked. "If she has, youmight tell her to give Dunn some breakfast. I've just been tellinghim I'm willing to give him another chance and to take him on asgardener and chauffeur, so you can keep an eye on him and look at if heworks well."