He thought he would have preferred a dull, stupid sleep of malaria.

There was colour in plenty on her cheeks now, and sometimes he found her wrapped in the white shawl at noon on the warmest days Medicine Woods knew in early August; and on cool nights she wore the thinnest clothing and begged to be taken on the lake.

The Careys came out every other evening and the doctor watched and worked, but he did not get the results he desired.

His medicines were not effective.
"David," he said one evening, "I don't like the looks of this.

Your wife has fever I can't break.