She was her father's nurse, and seldom left him.

It was a dreary sort of business, but she was not melancholy.

In truth, she felt better pleased with herself than she had been in Rosville.

She could not help thinking that a chronic invalid would be a good thing for me.

How was Ben Somers?
How much longer should I stay in Rosville?
It would know us no more forever when we left, and both of us would leave it at the same time.