He depended upon her, for his medicine, for his drink, for the little amusement it was now permissible to give him.

The knowledge breathed into her heart a satisfying warmth.
At noon the doctor himself arrived.

"Go to lunch," he ordered Ruth.
He wanted to talk with the patient, test him variously; and he wanted to be alone with him while he put these tests.

His idea was to get behind this sustained listlessness.

"How goes it ?" he began, heartily.