But, on the other hand, there is no danger.

There's nothing even very serious, if Dr.West may be believed.

Do you know, Lionel, what I fancy he thinks ?" "What ?" asked Lionel.
"That if mamma were obliged to exert and rouse herself--were like any poor person, for instance, who cannot lie by and be nursed--she would be well directly.

And--unkind, unlike a daughter as it may seem in me to acknowledge it--I do very much incline to the same opinion." Lionel made no reply.
"Only Dr.West has not the candour to say so," went on Decima.

"So long as he can keep her lying here, he will do it; she is a good patient for him.