When Mrs. Tom Sentner came down the next day she found Josephine busy making flaxseed poultices , with her lips set in a line that betokened she had made up her mind to some disagreeable course of duty . `` Zillah has got pneumonia bad , '' she said , in reply to Mrs. Tom 's inquiries . `` The Doctor is here and Mary Bell from the Creek . She 'll wait on Zillah , but there 'll have to be another woman here to see to the work . I reckon I 'll stay . I suppose it 's my duty and I do n't see who else could be got . You can send Mamie and Jack down to stay at my house until I can go back . I 'll run over every day and keep an eye on things . '' At the end of a week Zillah was out of danger . Saturday afternoon Josephine went over home to see how Mamie and Jack were getting on . She found Mrs. Tom there , and the latter promptly despatched Jack and Mamie to the post-office that she might have an opportunity to hear Josephine 's news . `` I 've had an awful week of it , Ida , '' said Josephine solemnly , as she sat down by the stove and put her feet up on the glowing hearth . `` I suppose Zillah is pretty cranky to wait on , '' said Mrs. Tom sympathetically . `` Oh , it is n't Zillah . Mary Bell looks after her . No , it 's the house . I never lived in such a place of dust and disorder in my born days . I 'm sorrier for David Hartley than I ever was for anyone before . '' `` I suppose he 's used to it , '' said Mrs. Tom with a shrug . `` I do n't see how anyone could ever get used to it , '' groaned Josephine .
`` And David used XXXXX be so particular when he was a boy .
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