"My dear child, your mother is much better now, and if you follow my advice you will go to bed and take a rest. I shall stay with the invalid. The housekeeper here has kindly consented to give you a room."
"Not for any price," cried the little one in terror. "I cannot stay in this house overnight."
Little by little he managed to calm the poor child and make her understand his aim. She hesitatingly consented to stay overnight in the house, and the housekeeper conducted her to a little room. With inward terror the little one gazed at the unclean walls, and only her love for her mother induced her to stay and not return even now.
"Good-night, mother," she said, sobbing.
The woman looked vacantly at her and gave no sign of recognition of her daughter.
"Do not wake your mother up," said Anselmo, hastily. "Sleep is necessary to her and I will call you if she asks for you."
"Then you really intend to stay here?"
"Yes."
"Do you know us?"