This task finished, she proceeded to make the room tidy, and then set about making beef-tea in a little saucepan.
"You lay still and get well," she remarked, with tender playfulness.
"That's all you've got to do.

Me and Teddy'll look after you." "I couldn't think of troubling you," said the steward, earnestly.
"It's no trouble," was the reply.

"You don't think I'd leave you here alone helpless, do you ?" "I was going to send for old Mrs.Jackson if I didn't get well to-day," said Mr.Wilks.
Mrs.Silk shook her head at him, and, after punching up his pillow, took an easy chair by the fire and sat there musing.

Mr.Edward Silk came in to tea, and, after remarking that Mr.Wilks was very flushed and had got a nasty look about the eyes and a cough which he didn't like, fell to discoursing on death-beds.
"Good nursing is the principal thing," said his mother.

"I nursed my pore dear 'usband all through his last illness.