The neighbours are kind enough and come sometimes , but most of them have enough to do . His medicine has to be given every half hour . I 've been up for three nights running now . Jabez was off to the tavern for two . I 'm just about played out . '' She suddenly broke down and began to cry , or rather whimper , in a heart-broken way . Corona looked troubled . `` I wish I could come tonight , Mrs. Hart , but I 'm afraid I 'm really not strong enough yet . '' `` I do n't know much about sickness , '' spoke up Frances firmly , `` but if to sit by the child and give him his medicine regularly is all that is necessary , I am sure I can do that . I 'll come and sit up with Jacky tonight if you care to have me . '' Afterwards , when she and Corona were driving away , she wondered a good deal at herself . But Corona was so evidently pleased with her offer , and took it all so much as a matter of course , that Frances had not the courage to display her wonder . They had their drive through the great green bowl of the country valley , brimming over with sunshine , and afterwards Corona made Frances go home with her to tea . Rev. Elliott Sherwood had got back from his pastoral visitations , and was training his sweet peas in the way they should go against the garden fence . He was in his shirt sleeves and wore a big straw hat , and seemed in nowise disconcerted thereby . Corona introduced him , and he took Grey Tom away and put him in the barn . Then he went back to his sweet peas . He had had his tea , he said , so that Frances did not see him again until she went home . She thought he was a very indifferent young man , and not half so nice as his sister . But she went and sat up with Jacky Hart that night , getting to the Cove at dark , when the sea was a shimmer of fairy tints and the boats were coming in from the fishing grounds .
Jacky greeted her XXXXX a wonderful smile , and later on she found herself watching alone by his bed .
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