`` If Christopher is going to be ill he must be nursed , and I 'm the one to do it . He ought to be seen to right away . '' `` Eunice Carr ! Have you gone clean out of your senses ? It 's the smallpox -- the smallpox ! If he 's got it he 'll have to be taken to the smallpox hospital in town . You sha n't stir a step to go to that house ! '' `` I will . '' Eunice faced her excited aunt quietly . The odd resemblance to her mother , which only came out in moments of great tension , was plainly visible . `` He sha n't go to the hospital -- they never get proper attention there . You need n't try to stop me . It wo n't put you or your family in any danger . '' Caroline fell helplessly into a chair . She felt that it would be of no use to argue with a woman so determined . She wished Charles was there . But Charles had already gone , post-haste , for the doctor . With a firm step , Eunice went across the field foot-path she had not trodden for so long . She felt no fear -- rather a sort of elation . Christopher needed her once more ; the interloper who had come between them was not there .
As she walked through the frosty twilight she thought XXXXX the promise made to Naomi Holland , years ago .
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