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Ever since he had ceased being night-nurse to little Agnes, he had wished that he had some one to wake him every night, about the middle of it, that he might get up and look out of the window.
'The night-nurse, she observed, 'from Kingsgate Street, well beknown to Mrs Prig the day-nurse, and the best of creeturs. How is the poor dear gentleman to-night? If he an't no better yet, still that is what must be expected and prepared for.
Christie slept nearly all night, but to Effie the hours passed slowly and sorrowfully away. There was never entire quiet in the ward. There was moaning now and then, and feverish tossing to and fro on one or another of those white beds. The night-nurse moved about among them, smoothing the pillow of one, holding a cup to the lips of another, soothing or chiding, as the case of each required.
Susan would have looked at her severely, but the housemaid had a welcoming smile, an offer of food if Miss Henrietta had not dined. Henrietta shook her head. She was going to bed at once. She did not want anything to eat. How was Miss Caroline? 'Not so well to-night, Miss Henrietta. The doctor's been again and there's a night-nurse come. Henrietta pressed her hands against her heart.
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.
One morning my valet, whose turn as night-nurse it was, awoke me at 4 a.m. with the news that "Mr. William has come to again, and is screaming for beef-tea." I went into the cabin, where I found the S.B. quite conscious, and insistently demanding beef-tea. By sheer grit and force of will the lad had pulled himself out of the very Valley of the Shadow.
Everyone is in bed except the night-nurse, and up in that room one can't hear anything." "Still, if anyone did find me here, there'd be a devil of a mess. Roger'll be coming home, too; I saw him having dinner with that nurse girl." She made a slight grimace. "Oh, they will be hours yet. Listen! I sent you that message because I simply had to see you.
They moved apart as the night-nurse returned up the stairs. Esther felt slightly easier in her mind about him now. There was another thing, though. As he turned to go, she noticed that the bandage was off his right hand, and that the wound was open and bleeding again. "That won't do," she chid him gently. "I must attend to it again before you get it infected. You really are stubborn, you know!
He was so kind and fatherly, and he seemed to take such interest in me, that I confessed everything to him. After he had made me promise to be careful, he told the night-nurse to let me take her place for a little while, when the dim light in the room would not permit his patient to see me too plainly. He waited at the door when we tried the experiment.
"Who is it?" she cried, starting up and realising that it was morning. The door opened a crack and the slightly prim accents of the night-nurse called through: "It's after your usual time," she said. "I thought you would like to know." Esther sprang out of bed. "Oh, I'm dreadfully sorry! Something must have gone wrong with my clock." It was true. Last night's accident had damaged the alarm.
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