It is too late to try anything else." "May I go in there ?" "Well, you can't do any good, but you may go in if you'd rather." Then he went, as if glad of his release, and after Gabriella had prevailed upon Miss Folly to go to bed, she changed her street dress for a tea-gown, and threw herself on a couch before the fire in the sitting-room.

An overpowering fatigue weighed her down; the yellow firelight had become an anodyne to her nerves; and after a few minutes in which she thought confusedly of O'Hara and Cousin Jimmy, she let herself fall asleep.
When she awoke a man was replenishing the fire, and as she struggled drowsily back into consciousness, she realized that he was not Cousin Jimmy, but O'Hara, and that he was placing the lumps of coal very softly in the fear of awaking her.
"Hallo, there!" he exclaimed when he turned with the scuttle still in his hand; "so you're awake, are you ?" She started up.

"I've been asleep!" she exclaimed in surprise.
"You looked like a kid when I came in," he responded cheerfully, and she reflected that even the presence of death could not shadow his jubilant spirit.

"I went back to the kitchen to make some coffee for the nurse and myself, and I thought you might like a cup.

It's first-rate coffee, if I do say it.