Even Bill did not appear to know, nor Bland.

Perhaps Sudden himself did not know.

It seemed to Mary V that the whole ranch was just waiting, minute by minute, for Johnny to open his eyes, or stop breathing.

The unbearable part of it was, no one said anything much about it.

They just waited.
The doctor came again, and he did not say anything at all to Mary V.He stayed at the ranch all night, mostly in the room with Johnny.