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The young woman shook her head negatively.
"No," she said; "a young lady comes every evening about six and leaves the
flowers. She always asks about your condition and when she may see you."
Jimmy was silent for some time. "She comes every evening?" he asked.
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Yes," replied the nurse.
May I see her this evening?" asked Jimmy.
We'll ask the doctor," she replied; and the doctor must have given consent, for at
six o'clock that evening the nurse brought Edith Hudson to his bedside.
The girl came every evening thereafter and sat with Jimmy as long as the nurse
would permit her to remain. Jimmy discovered during those periods a new side to
her character, a mothering tenderness that filled him with a feeling of content
and happiness the moment that she entered the room, and which doubtless aided
materially in his rapid convalescence, for until she had been permitted to see him
Jimmy had suffered as much from mental depression as from any other of the
symptoms of his disease.
He had felt utterly alone and uncared for, and in this mental state he had
brooded over his failures to such an extent that he had reached a point where he
felt that death would be something of a relief. Militating against his recovery had
been the parting words of Elizabeth Compton the evening that he had dined at
her father's home, but now all that was very nearly forgotten--at least crowded
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