I WAS knocked out.

I could not believe it.

Mother, the bed-ridden invalid of six long years, to be well enough to sit up! to use a wheeled chair! It could not be true.

It was too good to be true.
"So, you see, you could leave her all right," went on Colton.

"If it was necessary you could get a nurse down here to look after her while you were away.