Mrs.Barker, I am sure, will take charge of the house; and therefore, seriously, I would ask you to take this draught I am about to mix for you, and to go upstairs and go to bed, and sleep till morning." "I could not sleep," Kate protested.
"Very well, then, lie quiet without sleeping; and if, in the evening, you find you are restless, you can come down for an hour or two; but I really must insist on your lying down for a bit.
"Now, Mrs.Barker, will you take this medicine up, and put this young lady to bed." "I hope she will get off to sleep," Mrs.Barker said, when she came downstairs again.
"I have no doubt whatever about it," Mr.Ruskin replied.

"I have given her a very strong sleeping draught, far stronger than I should think of giving, at any other time; but after the tension that the poor girl must have gone through, it would need a strong dose to take effect.

I think you will hear nothing more of her, till the morning." Indeed, it was not until the sun was well up, the next morning, that Kate Ellison woke.

She could hardly believe that she had slept all night; but the eastern sun, coming in through her window, showed her that she had done so.

She still felt bruised and shaken all over, but was otherwise herself again.