For a long time she could not make out what game they were up to.

The new arrivals, not expecting to find a woman with Bamtz, had been very startled and annoyed at first, she explained.
"She busied herself in attending to the boy; and nobody looking into that room would have seen anything suspicious in those two people exchanging murmurs by the sick-bedside.
"'But now they think I am a better man than Bamtz ever was,' she said with a faint laugh.
"The child moaned.

She went down on her knees, and, bending low, contemplated him mournfully.

Then raising her head, she asked Davidson whether he thought the child would get better.

Davidson was sure of it.
She murmured sadly: 'Poor kid.