How did your mother seem this afternoon, Bertha ?" "About the same, I think.

I don't feel at all anxious about her, because I have often seen her like this before.

I think really, Frank, that she is quite well enough to go up to town; but she knows that I am enjoying myself so much that she does not like to take me away.

I have no doubt that she will find herself better by Saturday, when, you know, we arranged some time back that we would go up.

You won't be long before you come, will you ?" "Certainly not.