A moment he beat the coverlid with his hands in impotence.

Then he sank back on the bed.
"Water!" he muttered.

"Water!" She fetched it hurriedly, and, raising his head on her arm, held it to his lips.

He drank, and lay back again with closed eyes.

He lay so still and so long that she thought that he had fainted; but after a pause he spoke.
"You have done that ?" he whispered; "you have done that ?" "Yes," she answered, shuddering.