The Captain sought his wife, and explained the cause of her brother's sudden summons; and Kate, in her own room, quite worn out, lay down dressed as she was, and fell into a profound, refreshing sleep, from which she did not wake until late next morning.
When she returned to her brother's chamber, she found the Doctor and the Captain gone, and Grace keeping watch.

Mrs.Danton explained that Frank had been summoned away about an hour previously to attend a patient in the village; and the Captain, at her entreaty, had gone to take some rest.

The patient was much the same, and was now asleep.
"But you should not have come here, Mrs.Danton," Kate expostulated.
"You know this fever is infectious." Mrs.Danton smiled.
"My life is of no more value than yours or my husband's.

I am not afraid--I should be very unhappy if I were not permitted to do what little good I can." For the second time there flashed into Kate's mind the thought that she had never done this woman justice.

Here she was, generous and self-sacrificing, risking her own safety by the sick-bed of her husband's own son.