"It would be so awkward, you know, if you should be arrested for abduction." The doctor thought it was probably nothing more than the complete prostration that might follow eight days of sea-sickness, but the patient's heart was certainly a little weak, and she needed the utmost quiet.

His fee was a guinea for the first visit, and he would drop in again in the course of the afternoon to relieve our anxiety.

We took turns in watching by her bedside, but the two unemployed ones lingered forlornly near, and had no heart for sightseeing.

Francesca did, however, purchase opera tickets for the evening, and secretly engaged the housemaid to act as head nurse in our absence.
As we were dining at seven, we heard a faint voice in the little room beyond.

Salemina left her dinner and went in to find her charge slightly better.