"All right, let's go," she said. "We won't be gone long, Mother. Is there anything," as an afterthought, "that you need at the store?"
Mrs. Morley mentioned one or two articles, and Jo promised to bring them home with her when she returned.
"How is your Aunt Emma?" Jo asked of Nan when they were once outside the house.
"Amazingly fine!" Nan rejoined. "We have had the doctor in to see her this morning, Jo, and he says that there is a wonderful improvement in her. She seems to have taken a new hold on life and a new interest in it."
"Oh, I'm glad!" cried Jo. "Wouldn't it be wonderful if she got well after all?"
"She simply dotes on you," Sadie told her. "Nan says she talks of no one else."
"And she wants to see you again this morning," Nan added.
Jo frowned.
"I'd love to see her, of course. But if she is going to thank me again——"
"Nothing like that," Nan assured her buoyantly. "She just wants to see you. Says it would brighten her up."