"I always was terribly afraid of that man, sir, since he came," said she, with marked hesitation.
"But he cannot harm you now.

I don't ask you to go in to him one day after he is well again--if he recovers.

Neither need you be with him as a regular nurse: only step in now and then to give him his physic, or change the wet cloths on his burning head." Mrs.Jones found her voice.

The enormous impudence of the surgeon's request had caused its temporary extinction.
"I'd see Pike in his coffin before I'd go a-nigh him as a nurse! What on earth will you be asking next, Mr.Hillary ?" "I didn't ask you, Mrs.Jones: you have your children to attend to; full employment for one pair of arms.

Mrs.Gum has nothing to do with her time; and is near at hand besides.