“Will you not allow me to see her?”
“We cannot prevent you, but it would endanger her life.”
Parks bowed his head.
“At least I can secure her a separate room,” he said.
“Yes.”
“And I can send a nurse to assist the regular hospital attendants.”
“You may.”
“You will send for me if she becomes conscious?”
“Yes; and now I must ask you to withdraw. I think it much better that you should do so.”
Without making any protest against this decree, Parks again knelt beside his wife and kissed her. Then he slowly walked out of the ward.