"Is it homeopathic or allopathic ?" she asked.
"Neither the one or the other," was the discreet reply; "it is Panneyopathic, and just the thing for a girl who wants to get out of bed as soon as she can." Miriam looked full into the bright black eyes, and then took the bowl, and drank every drop of the contents.
"Thank you," she said.

"It is perfectly horrid, but I must get up." "Now you take a good long nap, and then I hope you will feel quite able to go down and begin to keep house for your brother." "The first thing to do," said Miriam, as Miss Panney carefully adjusted the bedclothes about her shoulders, "is to see what sort a house we have got, and then I will know how I am to keep it." When her young patient had dropped asleep, Miss Panney went downstairs.
In the lower hall she found Ralph walking up and down.
"There is no earthly need of your worrying yourself about your sister.

I am sure the doctor would say she is in no danger at all," said the old lady.

"And now, if you don't mind, I would like very much to go up into the garret and see what frightened your sister." "It was apparently a box of human bones," he said, "but I barely glanced at it.

You are perfectly welcome to go up and examine." It was a quarter of an hour before Miss Panney came down from the garret, laughing.
"I studied anatomy on those bones," she said.