The Ebony Frame

"""Oh! my dear, my dear, how shall I pass the hours till I hold you again?""No thought, then, of my whole life''s completion and consummation being a dream.I staggered up to my room, fell across my bed, and slept heavily and dreamlessly. When I awoke it was high noon. Mildred and her mother were coming to lunch.I remembered, at one o''clock, Mildred coming and her existence.Now indeed the dream be...