The doctor remained with them, applying, from time to time, appropriate remedies, until all the painful signs which occasioned so much alarm had vanished, and then left, promising to call early on the next morning.
It was past one o'clock.

The physician had left, and the domestics retired to their own apartment.

Mr.and Mrs.Wilkinson were alone with their still unconscious child, that lay in a deep, unnatural slumber.
They were standing, side by side, and bending over the bed on which little Ella lay.

Wilkinson had drawn his arm around his wife, and she had laid her head upon his shoulder.

Each heard the beating of the other's heart, as thus they stood, silent, yet with troubled thoughts and oppressed feelings.
A tear fell upon the hand of Wilkinson, and the warm touch, coming as it did in that moment of intense excitement, caused a quick thrill to pass through his nerves; and he started involuntarily.