Then she came to see me herself, saw the doctor, got in all sorts of things, and was coming to nurse me through the night herself.

God bless her for the thought alone! I was supposed not to know; they thought I was unconscious already.

But I kept conscious on purpose, I could have lived through anything for that alone.

And she never came! "My landlady sat up instead.

She is another of the kindest women on earth; she thought far more of me than I was ever worth, and it was she who screened me through thick and thin during the delirium that followed, and after that.