If Jules should come back, simply defy him to enter--that is all.
There are two of you, so you must keep an eye on the former occupiers, if they return, and on Miss Spencer, while I nurse the patient.

But first, you must send for a doctor.' 'Doctor!' Prince Aribert had said, alarmed.

'Will it not be necessary to make some awkward explanation to the doctor ?' 'Not at all!' she replied.

'Why should it be?
In a place like Ostend doctors are far too discreet to ask questions; they see too much to retain their curiosity.

Besides, do you want your nephew to die ?' Both the men were somewhat taken aback by the girl's sagacious grasp of the situation, and it came about that they began to obey her like subordinates.
She told her father to sally forth in search of a doctor, and he went.
She gave Prince Aribert certain other orders, and he promptly executed them.
By the evening of the following day, everything was going smoothly.