Her duties were with the sick.
Others must seek for the cause of the outbreak.

That was not the province of women.
Something in her way of moving about and performing her little offices pleased the fancy of the capricious old woman, as did also the aspect of the two girls, who were assisting Dorcas to set the room to rights after the confusion of the morning, when the mistress had suddenly been taken with a violent colic, which had turned her blue and rigid, and had convinced her household that she was taken for death, and that by a seizure of the prevailing malady.
She asked Dinah of herself and her plans, and nodded her head with approval as she heard that the two girls were to attend the sick likewise under her care.
"Good girls, brave girls--I like to see courage in old and young alike.

If I were young myself, I vow I would go with you.

It's a fine set of experiences you will have.
"Young woman, I like you.

I shall want to hear of you and your work.