Then she laid a hand upon her cheek.

Instantly it was withdrawn with a quick start, but as quickly replaced again.
"What a burning fever!" she murmured.

Then she added, in a tone of anxiety, "How strangely she works her mouth! I don't like this constant rolling of her head.

What can it mean?
Ella! Ella!" And she shook the child again.
"Want some water, love ?" The mother's voice did not appear to reach the locked sense of hearing.
Mrs.Wilkinson now lifted a glass of water from the bureau near by, and raising the head of Ella with one hand, applied, with the other, the water to her lips.

About a table-spoonful was poured into her mouth.