"Open it. Open it quick," said she to the eldest child. "It's bolted; make no noise--be very still. Oh, papa, let them go upstairs very softly and carefully, and perhaps she will not hear them. She has fainted--that's all."

'Open it quick,' said she to the eldest child. 'Make no noise.' Seeing her father with the other men, she told him, 'Oh, papa, let them go upstairs very softly, and perhaps she will not hear them. She has fainted.'
