He didn't speak to her again, but told me to turn her on the bed, so that he could get at one of her ears.
"He pulled out some instruments, while I did what he asked, and put them into her ear, but so tenderly that he never hurt her.

Then he looked in, through a sort of queer spy-glass thing.

Then he did it all over again with the other ear; and then he laid down the instruments and pulled out his watch.

'Write on a piece of paper,' says he to the other doctor: _'Do you know that the watch is ticking ?'_ When this was done, he makes signs to little Mary to open her mouth, and puts as much of his watch in as would go between her teeth, while the other doctor holds up the paper before her.

When he took the watch out again, she shook her head, and said 'No,' just in the same strange voice as ever.