"On removing the bandages just now," replied Mr. Hattaway, "I perceived to my great regret that with the left eye my skill has been unavailing. The failure is due, I believe, to an injury to the retina which I have been unable to discover." He paused and took snuff. "But I rejoice to inform you that sight is restored to the right eye. I admitted light into the room, and though the vision is diffused, which a lens will rectify, she saw me distinctly." "Thank God she has the blessing of sight," said Jeremy reverently. "Amen," said the surgeon. He took another pinch. "Also, perhaps, thank your humble servant for restoring it." "I owe you an unpayable debt," replied Jeremy. "She is crying out for the baby," said Mr. Hattaway. "If you will kindly send it in to her I can allow her a fleeting glimpse of it before I complete the rebandaging for the day." Jeremy rang the bell and gave the order. "And I?" he inquired bravely. The surgeon hesitated and scratched his plump cheek. "You know that my wife has never seen me." "To-morrow, then," said Hattaway. The nurse and child appeared at the doorway, and the surgeon followed them into Barbara's room. When the surgeon had left the house Jeremy went to Barbara and found her crooning over the babe, which lay in her arms. "I've seen him, dear, I've seen him!" she cried joyously. "He is the most wonderfully beautiful thing on the earth. His eyes are light blue, and mine are dark, so he must have yours. And his mouth is made for kisses, and his expression is that of a babe born in Paradise." Jeremy bent over and looked at the boy, who sniggered at him in a most unparadisiacal fashion, and they talked parentwise over his perfections. "Before we go back to Bullingford you will let me take a coach, Jeremy, and drive about the streets and show him to the town? I will hold him up and cry: 'Ladies and gentlemen, look! 'Tis the tenth wonder of the world. You only have this one chance of seeing him.'" She rattled on in the gayest of moods, making him laugh in spite of the terror. The failure of the operation in the left eye she put aside as of no account. One eye was a necessity, but two were a mere luxury. "And it is the little rogue that will reap the benefit," she cried, cuddling the child. "For, when he is naughty mammy will turn the blind side of her face to him." "And will you turn the blind side of your face to me?" asked Jeremy with a quiver of the lips. She took his hand and pressed it against her cheek. "You have no faults, my beloved husband, for me to be blind to," she said, wilfully or not misunderstanding him. Such rapture had the sight of the child given her that she insisted on its lying with her that night, a truckle-bed being placed in the room for the child's nurse. When Jeremy took leave of her before going to his own room he bent over her and whispered: "To-morrow."