"I shall never forget what Claire and I owe to you.

All my life I shall be your grateful debtor, and some day I hope that my husband will be able to thank you for what you did for us.
"And now," she went on, in a lighter tone, "I am going to be your nurse, and my first order is that you lie quite quiet, and try to get to sleep.
I will make you some barley water, and put it by your bedside.

That is all I can do for you, till the surgeon comes to examine your wound.
Claire wanted to come in to thank you herself, but the child has gone through enough for one night, so I have sent her straight to bed.

I do not want her on my hands, too." A few minutes later Larry, having established the two officers in another cottage, returned and took his place by Walter's bedside, while Mrs.
Conyers went out to see to the comfort of the other wounded.

Half an hour later, a surgeon arrived from Limerick.