Mrs.Grant wept with emotion; then she hurried off to see if she could do anything personally, and to set the house in order for "Master", as she always called him.

The Nurse's face fell: she was deprived of an interesting case.

But the disappointment was only momentary; and she rejoiced that the trouble was over.

She was ready to come to the patient the moment she should be wanted; but in the meantime she occupied herself in packing her portmanteau.
I took Sergeant Daw into the study, so that we should be alone when I told him the news.

It surprised even his iron self-control when I told him the method of the waking.