At last she went in to see if Mother needed her, and, twenty minutes later, when I looked into the bedroom, I saw that she had fallen asleep on the couch.

Mother, too, seemed to be sleeping, and I left them thus.
It was almost eleven o'clock when the sound of carriage wheels in the yard brought me to the window and then to the door.

Doctor Quimby had come at last and Taylor was with him.

The doctor, in his mackintosh and overshoes, was dry enough, but his companion was wet to the skin.
"Sorry I'm so late, Ros," said the doctor.

"I was way up to Ebenezer Cahoon's in West Denboro.