`` She is not improving as fast as I should like to see , '' he said . `` In fact -- er -- she seems to have gone backward the past week . You must send her to the country , Miss Langley . The heat here is too trying for her . '' Dr. Clark might as well have said , `` You must send her to the moon '' -- or so Marcella thought bitterly . Despair filled her heart as she looked at Patty 's white face and transparent hands and listened to the doctor 's coolly professional advice . Patty 's illness had already swept away the scant savings of three years . Marcella had nothing left with which to do anything more for her . She did not make any answer to the doctor -- she could not . Besides , what could she say , with Patty 's big blue eyes , bigger and bluer than ever in her thin face , looking at her so wistfully ? She dared not say it was impossible . But Aunt Emma had no such scruples . With a great clatter and racket , that lady fell upon the dishes that held Patty 's almost untasted dinner and whisked them away while her tongue kept time to her jerky movements . `` Goodness me , doctor , do you think you 're talking to millionaires ? Where do you suppose the money is to come from to send Patty to the country ? I ca n't afford it , that is certain . I think I do pretty well to give Marcella and Patty their board free , and I have to work my fingers to the bone to do that . It 's all nonsense about Patty , anyhow . What she ought to do is to make an effort to get better . She does n't -- she just mopes and pines .
She wo n't eat a thing I cook XXXXX her .
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