"I wouldn't hurt you for the world."
He sighed deeply and closed his eyes.
That evening, when she was giving him his medicine, he noticed that her eyelids were red and her eyes gleaming.
"You've been crying. What's made you cry?"
Rose did not answer.
"What is it?"
"Miss Kentish keeps on callin' and callin' me. And she scolds me something awful when I don't come."
"Give my compliments to Miss Kentish, Rose, and tell her she's a beast."
"I 'ave told her that if it was she that was ill I'd nurse her just the same and be glad to do it."
"You consider that equivalent to calling her a beast, do you?"