"He wants all the air he can get, and I can't make things ready with all of you in the room.

Go outdoors for a while, anyway.

It's summer and you'll not take cold! The Young Doctor has work to do, and my girl and I and these two will help him plenty." She motioned towards the banker and the gambling farmer.
In a moment the room was cleared of all save the four and Crozier, who knew that upon the coming operation depended his life.

He had been conscious when the Young Doctor said this was so, and he was thinking, as he lay there watching these two women out of his nearly closed eyes, that he would like to be back in Ireland at Castlegarry with the girl he had married and had left without a good-bye near five years gone.

If he had to die he would like to die at home; and that could not be.
Kitty had the courage to turn towards him now.