Might it be cancer ?" "I don't know." "And what shall you do ?" "I should like an examination, with Dr.Jameson." "Then have one." "You must arrange about that.

His fee wouldn't be less than ten guineas to come here from Nottingham." "When would you like him to come ?" "I will call in this evening, and we will talk it over." Paul went away, biting his lip.
His mother could come downstairs for tea, the doctor said.

Her son went upstairs to help her.

She wore the old-rose dressing-gown that Leonard had given Annie, and, with a little colour in her face, was quite young again.
"But you look quite pretty in that," he said.
"Yes; they make me so fine, I hardly know myself," she answered.
But when she stood up to walk, the colour went.

Paul helped her, half-carrying her.