Merlin's beard!

The papers Nora had been holding fell to the ground as she rushed to her mentor's side. A sense of dread she hadn't expected washed over her as she realized how woefully unprepared she was to deal with anything of a medical nature. She was many things, but she was most assuredly not her brother!

"What's wrong?" Elinor asked urgently, one hand resting lightly on the woman's back and another more heavily upon Mrs. Skeeter's forearm.