I am so glad we had a case of fever at the school.

It was a lay sister, a stupid woman.

But how lucky that I should be at home just when you wanted me!" She stood upright again, after deftly loosening the bandage round her father's ankle, and looked at him and laughed.
"Poor, dear old papa," she said.

"One sees that you want some one to take care of you.

And this cabin-oh! mon Dieu! how bare and uncomfortable! I suppose men have to go to sea alone because they can persuade no woman to go with them." She pounced upon her father again, and arranged afresh the cushions behind his back, with a little air of patronage and protection.