Sophie did not want to ask him to come down herself, and she thought me the most likely ambassador to bring him, but it was not a congenial embassy.
Perhaps, however, she only asked me because I happened to be nearest her, and she was rather upset by what the doctor said.
I knocked at Richard's door.
"Well ?" "Oh, they want you to come down-stairs a minute.

There's something to be done," panting and rather incoherent.
"What is to be done ?" "The Doctor's here, and he says he must have help." "Where's Kilian ?" "Gone to bed." Some suppressed ejaculation, and he pushed back his chair, and rose, and came across the room: at least it sounded so, and I ran down the stairs again.

He followed me in a moment.

The Doctor came forward and talked to him a little while, and then Richard called Patrick, and told Sophie to see that Mr.Langenau's room was ready.
"How can he get up two pairs of stairs," said Charlotte Benson, "when he cannot move an inch without such suffering ?" "That's very true," the Doctor said.

"I doubt if he could bear it.