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"She has felt the heat, of course The summer--I often think--"

"Her lips are blue!"

"It's probably nothing serious"

"She says you've had Dr Ed over to see her"

She put her hands on his ar

of terror in her face

Thus cornered, he had to acknowledge that Anna had been out of sorts

"I shall coic and absurd that I should be

caring for other people, when my own mother--"

She dropped her head on his aresture to draw her to him, she never knew it After a moment she

looked up

"I'm much braver than this in the hospital But when it's one's own!"

K was sorely te her back to the

little house: to their old evenings together, to seeing the younger Wilson,

not as the white god of the operating-room and the hospital, but as the

dandy of the Street and the neighbor of her childhood--back even to Joe