Some women came hurrying in with white faces, staring curiously even then at Barney and Charlotte; but she never heeded them, except to answer in the affirmative when they asked, in shocked voices, if Deborah was dead.
She went on soothing Barney, as if he had been her child, with no more shame in it, until he raised his white face from her breast of his own accord.
"Oh, Charlotte, you will stay to-night, won't you ?" he pleaded.
"Yes, I'll stay," said Charlotte.

Young as Charlotte was, she had watched with the sick and sat up with the dead many a time.

So she and the doctor's wife watched with Deborah Thayer that night.

Rebecca came, but she was not strong enough to stay.

The next day Charlotte assisted in the funeral preparations.