I am not afraid to sit up alone with her, oh, no! It is better not to have too many in the room at once.

Do not be uneasy, master, the delirium is not very bad.

Yes, Mr Owen, you can do better than any one else, because you are calmer.

No, ma'am, it is not an infectious fever--you need not be afraid,' and so from one to another at intervals she went, giving hope and comfort.
During all that night and several successive ones, Gladys sat up with her beloved mistress.

It was she who listened to her disturbed, delirious talk about Netta, and tried to console her; she who read the Bible to her, and prayed with and for her during the intervals of reason, and she who gave her all her medicines and nourishment.
Poor Mr Prothero could do nothing but wander from the fields to the house, and the house back again to the fields, followed by his brother like his shadow, who strove to comfort him in vain.