You had better go and rest.
Dexie will bring me something hot to drink presently, and that is all I
shall want."
"Then I will leave you now with Jarvis, and see about it, papa," and Dexie
left the room without saying a word to Mr. Traverse, who had taken a chair
and seated himself at the other side of the bed. She was too much taken up
with her father's sufferings to remember that her own heart had cause for
grief.
She was some time away from the room, and naturally expected that Mr.
Traverse had left the house, as Mrs. Jarvis said nothing about his still
being in the room when she came out to speak to her.
"It is my turn to sit up the first part of the night, Mrs. Jarvis," said
Dexie, "so you had better go at once to bed. I will call you if he should
be worse, so do not sleep with one eye open. I will be sure to let you know
if you are needed."
"Well, Traverse, you astonished me to-night," said Mr. Sherwood, as soon as
they were alone in the room; "that was a strange way of beginning your
wooing," and there was a smile on his white face as he looked into the
manly one before him.
"Yes, I astonished them all," and he laughed softly.
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