I should say you might be here six months without even a chance of a visitor.

Everyone knows the house is shut up, and as you have no neighbor within half a mile no one is likely to call in.

Even if anyone did by accident come here you would be in no danger; we are all one way of thinking about here." "Shall we make some broth for him ?" Lucy asked after they had left the room.
"No; he had better take nothing whatever during the next twenty-four hours except his medicine and cooling drinks.

The great thing is to get down the fever.

We can soon build him up afterward." By nightfall the exertions of Dan, Lucy, and Chloe had made the house tidy.