"And it seems I am not too late for you.

I shouldn't have disturbed you if you had been asleep." She smiled a quivering, piteous smile.

"You knew I should not be asleep," she said.
He glanced towards the bed which Biddy was setting in order with tender solicitude.

"I expected to find you in bed nevertheless," he said.

"What made you get up again ?" She shook her head in silence, standing before him like a child that expects a merited rebuke.
He put a hand on her shoulder that was authoritative rather than kind.
"Lie down again!" he said.