"Mis' Cives is gone off home."
"Gone home! — what, to Mountain Spring?"
"That's where her home is, she says."
"What for? and without asking?"
"She wanted to spend to-night at home, she said; and she asked no questions and went."
"To night of all nights! when Karen seems so much worse!"
"It's good we've got the Governor," said Clam.
"But he can't sit up all night with her."
"Guess he will," said Clam. "Pretty much like him. You can sleep in your bed, Miss 'Lizabeth."
"You go and get the room ready — he must not sit up all night — and we'll see in the morning about Mountain Spring. Somebody must go."