"I can, for I've been in them," said Norton. "And once is enough. They have got the medicine now, Pink; you needn't stay any longer."
"Oh yes, but I must. I must till Miss Redwood comes. The medicine will have to be taken again in a little while."
"It can wait till she gets here. You come away, Pink. Miss Redwood said you should."
"She didn't know what there was for me to do, or she wouldn't have said it. I can't go, Norton."
"But you must, Pink. She said so. Suppose these people should be ill with something dreadful? you can't tell."
"I am sure they would want a nurse then."
"But you might get ill, you know."
"Well, Norton, I'm not afraid."
"You might get sick, all the same, if you're not afraid," said Norton, impatiently. "Come, Pink, you must come."
"I can't, Norton. I must go in and give them some more beef tea now, in a minute. They can't take but ever so little at a time. It would be very wrong to leave them as they are."