His strong hands opened and closed mechanically.
"Does that mean that you know what he desires and cannot, or will not, supply it ?" McLean groaned in misery.
"It means," he said desperately, "that I know what he wants, but it is as far removed from my power to help him as it would be to give him a star.

The thing for which he will die, he can never have." "Then you must prepare for the end very shortly" said the surgeon, turning abruptly away.
McLean caught his arm roughly.
"You look here!" he cried in desperation.

"You say that as if I could do something if I would.

I tell you the boy is dear to me past expression.
I would do anything--spend any sum.

You have noticed and repeatedly commented on the young girl with me.