‘Time for my medicine? Nonsense! The time for that is over. To give medicine now is merely to deceive; besides I am not afraid to die. Mashi, Death is busy with his physic; why do you add another nuisance in the shape of a doctor? Send him away, send him away! It is you alone I need now! No one else, none whatever! No more falsehood!’
‘I protest, as a doctor, this excitement is doing you harm.’
‘Then go, doctor, don't excite me any more!—Mashi, has he gone?… That's good! Now come and take my head in your lap.’
‘All right, dear! Now, Baba, try to sleep!’
‘No, Mashi, don't ask me to sleep. If I sleep, I shall never wake. I still need to keep awake a little longer. Don't you hear a sound? Somebody is coming.’
V
‘Jotin dear, just open your eyes a little. She has come. Look once and see!’
‘Who has come? A dream?’
‘Not a dream, darling! Mani has come with her father.’
‘Who are you?’