They grasped each other's hands without speaking, and John, as though his strength were at an end, dropped upon the chair by the bedside.

For the last four or five nights he had sat there; if he got half an hour's painful slumber now and then it was the utmost.

His face was like that of some prisoner, whom the long torture of a foul dungeon has brought to the point of madness.

He uttered only a few words during the half-hour that Sidney still remained in the room.

The latter, when Mrs.Hewett's relapse into unconsciousness made it useless for him to stay, beckoned Amy to follow him out into the area and put money in her hand, begging her to get whatever was needed without troubling her father.