"I hope not," he said.
"It was the fright I got when I woke and saw where I was. I shouldn't have been frightened, for I knew the place as well as I know this room, and could have found my way back in the dark."
"What can I get for you?—you must have something." It is an awkward thing when a nurse has to seek directions from a patient.
"Nothing," she said: "I can take nothing, and I am quite well. I can't think how I was so foolish as to scream, and I am sorry for disturbing you."
"You did not disturb me: if I had been asleep I should never have heard you."
"I wish you had been asleep."
"You might have fallen through the rafters and been hurt or perished of cold."
"I shouldn't have fallen through the rafters: I should have come to myself and have walked back quite well alone; but I am not the less obliged to you."
"I should say not," he said with a curl of sarcasm. "Then is there nothing I can do for you?"