Where do you live, child ?" "Almost half an hour from here," said Hannah, answering for Selene.
"She cannot be taken so far as that, even in a litter, at present," said the old man.
"I must go home!" cried Selene, resolutely, and trying to sit up.
"Nonsense," exclaimed the physician.

"I must forbid your moving at all.
Be still, and be patient and obedient, or your foolish joke will come to a bad end; fever has already set in, and it will increase by the evening.

It has nothing much to do with the leg, but all the more with the inflamed scalp-wound.

Do you think," he added, turning to the widow, "that perhaps a bed could be made here on which she might lie, and remain here till the factory reopens ?" "I would rather die," shrieked Selene, trying to draw away her foot from the leech.
"Be still--be still, my dear child," said the good woman, soothingly.

"I know where I can take you.