"No. I would have gone over there, but I couldn't leave you."
"You are a noble woman, Caroline." She was arranging his pillow and he was looking up at her. "You are too good for me."
"Please don't say that," she pleaded.
"I might as well say it as to feel it. Isn't it time for Henry to come?"
"Yes, I think so. He'll be here soon, I'm sure."
"I hope I shan't have to lie here to-morrow. I can't, and that's all there is about it."
He lay listening with the nervous ear of eagerness until so wearied by disappointing noises that he sank into another doze.