"But what can I do?"
"That is what I came to see."
"Did you expect me to go down and nurse the girl?"
He looked at me with a shrewd twinkle in his eye, and for a moment said nothing.
"I just expected if there was anything possible to be done you'd think of it," he replied.
I thought for a moment, and then I told him I would write to Cousin Mehitable to send down a trained nurse from Boston.
"The Overseers won't pay her," he commented with a grin.
"Perhaps you will," I returned, knowing perfectly that he was trying to tease.
"It will take several days at least to get her here."