I envied Arthur; I envied the attendants; I envied even the servants in the house.
They would all know sooner than I.Carmel! Carmel! Sending for Clifton, I begged him to keep himself in communication with the house, or with the authorities.

He promised to do what he could; then, perceiving the state I was in, he related all he knew of present conditions.

No one was allowed in the sick room but the nurse and the doctor.

Even Arthur was denied admission, and was wearing himself out in his own room as I was wearing myself out here, in restless inactivity.

He expected her to sink and never to recover consciousness, and was loud in his expressions of rebellion against the men who dared to keep him from her bedside when her life was trembling in the balance.