"Now then," he added in a moment, "you shall go into my little guest-room there while I watch over our patient, and sleep like the heroine you are for many hours."
Jacqueline demurred indignantly. "Leave him? Indeed I won't! It's my place to nurse him, not yours. Go to sleep yourself!"
He did not venture to drive Woman out of her natural sphere.
"As you like. Just rest on one of these cots, then, while I attend to some further matters. I shall rouse you when I am ready to leave."
"You won't go far?"
"Oh, no. I shall be within call."
Jacqueline stretched herself luxuriously. The cot was very comfortable. "I shan't go to sleep, of course," she said....
Once during the night she stirred suddenly. "Philip will be worried," she murmured.
A quiet voice answered beside her, "No, I shall send word to him."
She lifted her heavy lids. "Oh, is that you, Phil?" she muttered contentedly, and dozed off again....