Get her to sleep if you possibly can." And he had left a sleeping draught.

Marcella resolved that she would persuade her to take it.

"But I will wake her before eight o'clock," she thought.

"No human being has the right to rob her of herself through that last hour." And tenderly she coaxed Minta to take the doctor's "medicine." Minta swallowed it submissively, asking no questions.

But the act of taking it roused her for the time, and she would talk.