And don't you think you're giving any trouble to anybody, for there isn't anything that pleases me so much as to have a girl to look after.
It's the biggest treat the Lord could send." Anne smiled a little, conscious of a glow at the heart that she had not known for many a day.

She tried weakly to give her hand to her new friend, but the pain of moving was so intense that she uttered a quick gasp and abandoned the attempt.
But in an instant Mrs.Errol's fingers were wound closely about her own, the large face, wonderfully smooth, save for a few kindly wrinkles about the eyes, was bent to hers.
"There, dearie, there!" said the motherly voice, tender for all its gruffness.

"You're stiff in every limb, and no wonder.

It's just natural.
Just you lie still and leave everything to me." She was, in fact, determined to take the whole burden of nursing upon herself, and when the doctor had gone she began to show Anne how capable she was of fulfilling the responsibility she had thus undertaken.

No trained nurse could have given her more dexterous attention.
"I've spent a great part of my life in sickrooms," she told Anne.