21/44 There's a widow woman over there that goes out nussin', Silas said, an' they hope they can get her. The doctor says he's got to have somebody." "Rebecca can't do anything, of course," said Sarah, meditatively; "he 'ain't got any of his own folks to come, poor feller." Charlotte crossed the kitchen floor with a resolute air. "I shouldn't think you'd ask me," said she. Do you suppose I am going to let him lie there and suffer all alone, with nobody to take care of him ?" "There's--the woman--comin'." "She can't come. |