CHAPTER II.
NURSE SARAH'S STORY And this is Nurse Sarah's story.
As I said, I'm going to tell it straight through as near as I can in her own words.

And I can remember most of it, I think, for I paid very close attention.
* * * * * "Well, yes, Miss Mary Marie, things did begin to change right there an' then, an' so you could notice it.

_We_ saw it, though maybe your pa an' ma didn't, at the first.
"You see, the first month after she came, it was vacation time, an' he could give her all the time she wanted.

An' she wanted it all.

An' she took it.