The next day Andrew Stuart sent for the doctor, and a few hours later the nurse came. The word went around Queen's Shore and the Corners that Jane Stuart was very ill with a dangerous type of pneumonia.
Jane could never remember anything of those first days very clearly. She was delirious almost from the beginning of her illness. Faces came and went dimly. dad's in anguish. a grave, troubled doctor. a white-capped nurse. finally another face. only THAT must be a dream. mother couldn't be there. not even if Jane could smell the faint perfume of her hair. Mother was in far-away Toronto.
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