“But I am not alone. You are here, and have got to help me. Tell me that you will—at any cost,” she leaned forward, and in her eagerness raised her voice till he pointed upward warningly.
When she had given his medicine without a touch of tenderness, he said to her:
“You have bid my soul forth. I will give you that help, at any cost.”
He made the last sentence stand out, but in her earnestness she did not notice it or think of it again till it was significant. She went back to her bed on the sitting-room couch and to the broken rest allowed to those who watch with the sick.
CHAPTER XXIII
“AT ANY COST”
The old doctor delivered the message to Luther, and the next morning he appeared at the sickroom door.
While he was talking to Hugh, Nathan Hornby came and was called into the sickroom also. Elizabeth was too busy with her own work to think much about this visit, and before it was finished Doctor Morgan was with her questioning her about the night spent by her patient.