Don't you hear him pawing the turf?
I'm coming, my boy, I'm coming!" and he attempted to leap upon the floor, but the doctor's strong arm held him down, while Alice, whose voice alone he heeded, strove to quiet him.
"I wouldn't go away to-day," she said soothingly.

"Some other time will do as well, and Rocket can wait." "Will you stay with me ?" Hugh asked.
"Yes, I'll stay," was Alice's reply.
"I'm glad he's roused up," the doctor said, "though I don't like the way his fever increases," and Alice knew by the expression of his face that there was but little hope, determining not to leave him during the night.
Densie or Aunt Eunice might sleep on the lounge, she said, but the care, the responsibility shall be hers.

To this the doctor willingly acceded, thinking that Hugh was safer with her than any one else.

Exchanging the white wrapper she had worn through the day for one more suitable, Alice, after an hour's rest in her own room, returned to Hugh, who had missed her sadly, and who knew the moment she came back to him, even though his eyes were closed, and he seemed to be half asleep.
"Mas'r Hugh won't die," and Muuggins' faith came to the rescue, throwing a ray of hope into the darkness.

"Miss Alice axed God to spar' him, and so did I; now He will, won't He, miss ?" and she turned to Adah, who, with Sam, had just come up to Spring Bank, and hearing voices in the kitchen had entered there first.