It had been kept from his head by strong applications to his legs, and the doctor put blisters on various parts of his body.
"What do you want, sir?" said the maid, half opening the door.
"Be so kind as to ask my wife to come."
At the end of a minute the servant reappeared, and said:
"She is coming directly."
The young man waited, and in ten minutes' time the fair head of his wife appeared at the door.
"What do you want, my love?" she asked without coming in, and in a tone too careless to accord with the tenderness of the words.
"Come in. It is eleven o'clock, and the blister has not been attended to yet."
"I thought you would wait for the doctor to do it," she said as she hesitatingly entered the room, resplendent in a magnificent blue silk dress.
"He did not say he would come and take it off; besides, it hurts me very much."