"I think it is touch and go with him--but if he wears the night out he may pull through.

It was very good of you to come." Alice Deringham made a little gesture of impatience.

"But there is hope ?" she said, and her voice was very low and strained.
Seaforth glanced round sharply as the woman, knocking over something, went out of the room.
"A little, I believe, if he could sleep," he said huskily.

"The doctor is with him now--scarcely left him the last four days.

We have nobody to help us.