He cried himself into a fever an' was ill all night." "If he ever gets angry at me, I'll never go and see him again," said Mary.
"He'll have thee if he wants thee," said Martha.

"Tha' may as well know that at th' start." Very soon afterward a bell rang and she rolled up her knitting.
"I dare say th' nurse wants me to stay with him a bit," she said.

"I hope he's in a good temper." She was out of the room about ten minutes and then she came back with a puzzled expression.
"Well, tha' has bewitched him," she said.

"He's up on his sofa with his picture-books.

He's told the nurse to stay away until six o'clock.
I'm to wait in the next room.