"The scheming little pudding-faced governess creature, with a cherry nose and an envious eye to her"-- he commented to himself.
"But you do not apprehend anything serious ?" Theresa said stiffly--"Merely a slight chill ?" "With a temperature dancing up and down like a mad thing between a hundred and one and a hundred and three?
I'm dashed if I like the looks of her at all, at all, Miss Bilson; and I am well acquainted with her constitution and her temperament.

She's as delicate a piece of feminine mechanism as it's ever been my fortune to handle, and has been so from a child.

Mind and body so finely interwoven that you can't touch the one without affecting the other--that is where danger comes in .-- And I am glad to find she has so competent a nurse as Mary Fisher--a wholesome woman and one to put faith in.

I have given my full instructions to her." "But I"-- Theresa began fussily, her face crimson.
"Oh! I don't doubt you're devotion itself; only my first consideration is my patient, and so I make free to use my own judgment in the selection of my assistants.

No disrespect to you, my dear lady.