I have sent Miles with warm water to help him put them comfortable; and now there is someone in the store.

Dear, can you go?
I don't know where Phil is." "I will go.

But what about Father ?" Katherine asked, lingering.
"You can do nothing for him, and he is as comfortable as it is possible to make him at present," Mrs.Burton replied.

Then Katherine hurried away, for business must be attended to whatever disasters menaced the family peace and happiness.
The customer was a man from one of the fishing boats, which was preparing to leave the river directly the barrier of ice at the mouth gave way.

He wanted more stores than could be immediately supplied, and promised to come back for them later.
"I saw you'd got the Englishman in your boat when you came up river; I thought he looked pretty sick," remarked the fisher, who was a Yankee from Long Island Sound.
"His feet are bad, which is not wonderful when one remembers his journey from Maxokama," Katherine answered, wishing that the man would go, so that she might go back to her father.
But this he seemed in no hurry to do, and with a cautious look round to make sure no one was within earshot, he leaned over the counter and asked in a confidential tone: "Can you keep a secret, Miss ?" "I think so, but I am not very fond of them," she answered, drawing back with a repressive air, for the man's manner was more familiar than she cared for.
"Well, it's this then; the Englishman is likely to go on getting sicker still if he keeps lodging at Oily Dave's hotel.