She will be worse before she is better.

Pretty soon a night-and-day watch must be set.

How much of it can you two undertake ?" "All of it!" burst from both ladies at once.
The doctor's eyes flashed, and he said, with energy: "You DO ring true, you brave old relics! And you SHALL do all of the nursing you can, for there's none to match you in that divine office in this town; but you can't do all of it, and it would be a crime to let you." It was grand praise, golden praise, coming from such a source, and it took nearly all the resentment out of the aged twin's hearts.

"Your Tilly and my old Nancy shall do the rest--good nurses both, white souls with black skins, watchful, loving, tender--just perfect nurses!--and competent liars from the cradle....

Look you! keep a little watch on Helen; she is sick, and is going to be sicker." The ladies looked a little surprised, and not credulous; and Hester said: "How is that?
It isn't an hour since you said she was as sound as a nut." The doctor answered, tranquilly: "It was a lie." The ladies turned upon him indignantly, and Hannah said: "How can you make an odious confession like that, in so indifferent a tone, when you know how we feel about all forms of--" "Hush! You are as ignorant as cats, both of you, and you don't know what you are talking about.