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She no longer seemed like a little girl . After a while the doctors went away . `` I do n't suppose there is much they can do for a while , perhaps , '' remarked Mrs. White ; `` and Miss Bell , she is as good as any doctor . '' Both physicians returned a little after noon , and previously Mrs. Edgham had made her voice of lamentation heard again . Then it ceased abruptly , but there was no odor of chloroform . `` They are giving her morphine now , I bet a cooky , '' Mrs. White said . She , with Maria , was clearing away the dinner-table then .