Gentle stimulants and mucilages must precede solid food, and but a little of anything be taken at a time.
Doctor Garner began his treatment in the very break.

The first spoonful of egg and brandy told upon Grace Hope.

Her deportment had been strange.
She had seemed confused at times, and now and then she would cast a look of infinite tenderness upon Walter, and then again she would knit her brow and seem utterly puzzled.
But now she gave Walter a look that brought him nearer to her, and she said, with a heavenly smile, "You love me best; better than the other." Then she began to cry over her father.
"Better than the other," said Walter, aloud.

"What other ?" "Be quiet," said the doctor.

"Do you really think her stomach can be empty for six days, and her head be none the worse?
Come, my dear, another spoonful.