Nella had sat up with him the previous night and throughout the day.
Her father had spent the morning at the hotel, and Prince Aribert had kept watch.

The two men were never absent from the house at the same time, and one of them always did duty as sentinel at night.

On this afternoon Prince Aribert and Nella sat together in the patient's bedroom.

The doctor had just left.

Theodore Racksole was downstairs reading the New York Herald.