"If she did, do you suppose she would have taken him home?"
"Yes; that would make no difference to her. She's got too big a heart to hold spite against any one."
"Did you know that she nursed Topsy Scarves for six weeks when she had the smallpox?"
Jim shook his head. "No, but it's just like her if she did."
"She did. Topsy wouldn't let no one else touch her, but she was like a lamb with Mrs. Waring; so Mrs. Waring stayed six weeks and let her business get on as well as it could without her. And when Mrs. Scarves wanted to thank her, she said she wasn't to, for it had been a real happy time for her. Mrs. Scarves says she did everything for Topsy, and wasn't frightened a wee bit. I told you Mrs. Bessie Jones offered to get Mr. Wood,—no, Mr. Waring,—into Warley Hospital. Do you think she knew who he was?"
"Did she see him?"
"No, she only heard him cough."
"I wish to goodness she'd succeeded, and that it shouldn't have been in our house the Little Missis got such a blow! My! it was a staggerer for her when she heard him cough! I never saw any one look as she did! I wish we could help her in some way or other, that I do. I wonder God lets such a good woman like she is have so much trouble."
"Perhaps it's trouble that's made her good," wisely remarked Mrs. Coates.
"Perhaps so, it does some people."