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He should be saved if she would only come and take his hand. "His cries became so pitiful that I could bear them no longer. His wife had gone to attend a prayer-meeting, but the church was only in the next street. Fortunately, the day-nurse had not left the house: I called her in to watch him for a minute, and, slipping on my bonnet, ran across.
No, I shall not; and I don't know that it would be worth my while to pay you to stay on while I have nothing for you to do." "Oh, no, naturally. I understand." "If, however, you still wish to remain in Cannes, I have an offer to make you. There is an English nurse looking after Sir Charles, but he is going to require another. Perhaps you'd care to take on the job of day-nurse to him?"
He had still one more condition to insist on. "'I won't be laughed at, he said. 'Promise that you will not repeat to any living creature what I have just told you. "My promise satisfied him. He wearily closed his eyes. In a few minutes more his poor weak body was in peaceful repose. "The day-nurse returned, and remained with us later than usual. Twilight melted into darkness.
At the door, he met Miss Nevin, the day-nurse, coming out. She said she was going to telephone the doctor. Peter slipped into the darkened room and shut the door noiselessly behind him. After a moment, he tipped over to the bed and sat down in the nurse's chair, silently.
"I can look after him, sir," said Griffiths at once. "Oh, very well." He wrote a prescription, gave instructions, and left. "Now you've got to do exactly as I tell you," said Griffiths. "I'm day-nurse and night-nurse all in one." "It's very kind of you, but I shan't want anything," said Philip. Griffiths put his hand on Philip's forehead, a large cool, dry hand, and the touch seemed to him good.
My mother went through it unscathed in strength, though she performed all the work of day-nurse and night-nurse to a sick household; for there were soon three of them dying. At this time there came from some quarter an offer to me of a commission in an Austrian cavalry regiment; and so it was apparently my destiny to be a soldier.
In the earlier hours of the night, after the nurses had been changed, and Mary had gone to bed exhausted with stair-climbing, and Lily Holl was recounting the day to Dick up at the grocer's, and the day-nurse was already asleep, and the night-nurse had arranged the night, then, in the faintly-lit silence of the chamber, Constance would argue with herself for an hour at a time.
The glimpse was a short one, yet it was sufficient to disclose the facts of clear, very child-like hazel eyes, fresh dashes of colour in the cheeks, and an exceedingly shapely pair of ankles and legs. Roger remained spellbound on the top step for so long a space that his aunt turned back to discover the cause. "That's your day-nurse, I take it?" he asked.
Donald showed no sign of the improvement which should ordinarily be looked for in the third week, and it was apparent to the doctors and nurses who attended him that the young Laird was not making a fight to get well that his tremendous physical resistance was gradually being undermined. His day-nurse it was who had the courage, womanlike, to bring the matter to an issue.
So the bargain was soon struck; and almost before she had discovered what was going to happen to her, Agnes found herself the day-nurse of the Lord Richard, the little Prince who was then in the cradle. Muriel was made mistress of the nurses; and even little Avice received a formal appointment as waiting-damsel on the Princess Margaret, the little girl who was feeding the peacock.
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