Having spoken these words of comfort, I rose with the resolution that if I recovered my health I would take her home with me, whether mother was willing or not." "I don't know what your mother would do without her; still, I wish she was away." Susan now came for her long absent husband, and they returned home to their room.
The month of November was one of great anxiety on James's account.

He was rapidly wasting away.
A celebrated physician was called, and performed a surgical operation, as a last means.

Should this fail, there was no hope.

Of course he was confined wholly to his room, mostly to his bed.

With all his bodily suffering, all his anxiety for his family, whom he might not live to protect, he did not forget Frado.