She is very ill, and can only recover through proper treatment.

Place it in my power to call a physician and to procure medicines, and I shall never cease to bless you." He moved uneasily in his chair, and averted his head from where she was kneeling, not because he felt touched at her appeal, but because he felt annoyed at her importuning him for money.
"Here my voman," he said at last.

"Here is von tollar pill, dat is all I can give you." She looked at the note in his extended hand, and felt the mockery.
"It will not do," she answered.

"Let me have the amount I have asked you for.

You can spare it.