But she sent him wines and delicacies, and she also despatched a messenger to a city sixty miles away, for the best physician.

Then she sought the avocat, to discover whether he had any exact information as to Valmond's friends in Quebec, or in France.

She had promised not to be his enemy, and she remembered with a sort of sorrow that she had told him she meant to be his friend; but, having promised, she would help him in his sore strait.
She had heard of De la Riviere's visit to Valmond, and she intended sending for him, but delayed it.

The avocat told her nothing: matters were in abeyance, and she abided the issue; meanwhile getting news of the sick man twice a day.

More, she used all her influence to keep up the feeling for him in the country, to prevent flagging of enthusiasm.
This she did out of a large heart, and a kind of loyalty to her temperament and to his own ardour for his cause.