five
minutes to one
But Rhoda or no Rhoda , he kept his promise . He was looking well after Miss Quincey . He would have done that as a matter of course ; for his worst enemies -- and he had several -- could not say that Cautley ever neglected his poorer patients . Only he concentrated or dissipated himself according to the nature of the case , giving five minutes to one and twenty to another . When he could he gave half-hours to Miss Quincey . He was absorbed , excited ; he battled by her bedside ; his spirits went up and down with every fluctuation of her pulse ; you would have thought that Miss Quincey 's case was one of exquisite interest , rarity and charm , and that Cautley had staked his reputation on her recovery . When he said to her in his emphatic way , `` We _ must _ get you well , Miss Quincey , '' his manner implied that it would be a very serious thing for the universe if Miss Quincey did not get well .