Question

"She has one chance in ten".Explain the meaning of this line.Chapter-The Last Leaf​

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"She has one chance in - let us say, ten," he said, as he shook down the mercury in his clinical thermometer. " And that chance is for her to want to live. This way people have of lining-u on the side of the undertaker makes the entire pharmacopoeia look silly.

What does 'for her to want to live' mean? She must want to live to deserve this chance? Or something else?

These lines are said by doctor to Sue and these lines are about Johnsy. She is ill and thinks that she will die as the last leaf of ivy tree fall. Doctor says that if she had any person in his life her chance will become more to recover.