"Yes, she is alive, dear, dear brother! She--as ill as she can be she is; but alive! She is alive!"
"Thank God!" said he.
"Papa is utterly prostrate with this great grief."
"You expect me, don't you?"
"No, we have had no letter."
"Then I have come before it. But my mother knows I am coming."

'Yes, she is alive, dear brother! She is as ill as she can be; but alive!'
'Thank God! You expect me, don't you?'
'No, we have had no letter.'
'Then I have come before it. But my mother knows I am coming?'
