"I can't," she said.
"Why not, dear ?" "I didn't want to tell you.

But now you make me.

Frank, dear, I am ill." His heart almost stopped.

"Ill?
Oh, my darlin', what is it?
Is it serious?
Tell me it isn't serious ?" and his voice rang with a note of agony.
"Oh, no, I don't think so.

I saw the doctor to-day.