QUOTE : How is it,” Douglas asked his patient, “your fever responds only to her touch, hmm?” “Shut up,” the earl replied tiredly. “She put something in the water, if you must know. I think it helps.” By the time Douglas had clean sheets on the bed and Westhaven extracted from his morning bath, the patient was once again growing drowsy. Douglas forced more willow bark tea down the hapless earl’s gullet, tucked him in, and left him dozing peacefully beside his borrowed guardian bear.