"If you had come an hour earlier, I should have put this young lady under your charge; but I think that the assurance of my husband, that Captain Whitney was doing well, has been a better medicine than you could give her." "No wonder she is shaken," Mr.Ruskin remarked.
"Mrs.Barker tells me you had a heavy fall, too, Miss Ellison." "Yes," she replied.

"I was stunned for a time but, beyond being stiff and bruised, I am none the worse for it." "Look here, Miss Ellison," the doctor said, after putting his fingers on her wrist, "I suppose you will want to be about, tomorrow, when our brave army returns.

Now, there is nothing you can do here.

Mrs.Donald can nurse her husband.

The other two require no nursing.