"It does get trying at times." "I should think so! This eternal worrying must be more than any one can bear, always lying there too." "It is only now and then that it grows tiresome," said Margaret.

"I am too happy to be of some use, and it is too bad to repine, but sometimes a feeling comes of its being always the same, as if a little change would be such a treat." "Aren't you very tired of lying in bed ?" "Yes, very, sometimes.

I fancy, but it is only fancy, that I could move better if I was up and dressed.

It has seemed more so lately, since I have been stronger." "When do you think they will let you get up ?" "There's the question.

I believe papa thinks I might be lifted to the sofa now--and oh! how I long for it--but then Mr.Ward does not approve of my sitting up, even as I am doing now, and wants to keep me flat.
Papa thinks that of no use, and likely to hurt my general health, and I believe the end of it will be that he will ask Sir Matthew Fleet's opinion." "Is that the man he calls Mat ?" "Yes, you know they went through the university together, and were at Edinburgh and Paris, but they have never met since he set up in London, and grew so famous.