I was a nurse once; but I couldn't stick it--too quiet.

Alice has been helping me," she added, as if forced to make the admission.
"I say, you have been awfully good to me," said Derrick, gratefully.
"Oh, that's all right," she said.

"I--I like it.

Like old times, you know.

I must go and tell Mr.Bloxford; he's been like a sick monkey fretting over its young." She stood beside the bed, her eyes downcast, her face pale now, but an expression on her proud and haughty lips which would have befitted a schoolgirl.
"Let me give you some broth.