Laury has been up with him all night.
Thought maybe you might give him something.

Come in, won't ye ?" There were only two rooms on the lower floor of the cottage--one was the kitchen, the other the bedroom where John Upham and his wife slept with the three youngest children.
Jerome followed Upham across the kitchen to the bedroom beyond.

The kitchen was littered with all John Upham's poor household goods, prostrate and unwashed, degraded even from their one dignity of use.
One of the kitchen windows opened towards the sand-hill; the room was full of its garish glare of reflected sunlight, and the revelations were pitiless.

Laura Upham, once a model housekeeper, had lost all ambition and domestic pride, now she had such a poor house to keep and so many children to tend.
Upham muttered an apology as Jerome picked his way across the room.
"Laury has been up all night with the baby, an' she hasn't had any time to redd up the room," he said.

"The children have been in here all the mornin', too, an' they've stirred things up some.