They stayed a long time in the room without opening the door.

Meredith paced the hall alone, sometimes stopping to speak to Warren Smith; but the two officials of peace sat together in dumb consternation and astonishment.

The sleepy young man relaxed himself resignedly upon a bench in the hall had returned to the dormance from which he had been roused.

The big hospital was very still.

Now and then a nurse went through the hall, carrying something, and sometimes a neat young physician passed cheerfully along, looking as if he had many patients who were well enough to testify to his skill, but sick enough to pay for it.