'Nothing at all.' Still the minister was not satisfied.

'Will you go in and see ?' he said.
'I should be much more at ease.' Mrs.Simpkins returned up the staircase, went to her daughter's room, and came out again almost instantly.

'There is nothing at all the matter with Lizzy,' she said; and descended again to attend to the applicant, who, having seen the light, had remained quiet during this interval.
Stockdale went into his room and lay down as before.

He heard Lizzy's mother open the front door, admit the girl, and then the murmured discourse of both as they went to the store-cupboard for the medicament required.

The girl departed, the door was fastened, Mrs.Simpkins came upstairs, and the house was again in silence.