Indeed, I am, and if there is to be any sitting up, it is I who will sit up with you." I would not argue the point, but went and had my supper.

Lucy came with me, and, enlivened by her charming presence, I made an excellent meal, and had a couple of glasses of the more than excellent port.
Then Lucy took me upstairs, and showed me a room next her own, where a cozy fire was burning.
"Now," she said.

"You must stay here.

I shall leave this door open and my door too.

You can lie on the sofa for I know that nothing would induce any of you doctors to go to bed whilst there is a patient above the horizon.