You’ve helped that many it seems like you were sent here for we-all as well as for your own sake, but that can’t help me now, Doctor; it — ”

“Ah, yes it can. I’m far from well yet. I shall be, but I must stay on for a long time, and I want some interest here. I want to see things of my own growing. The ground up around my little cabin is stony and very poor, and I want to rent this little farm of yours. Listen — I’ll pay enough so you need not sell your cattle, and you — you can go on with your weaving. You can work in the house again as you have always done. Sometime, when your mother is stronger, you can take up your life again and go to school — as you meant to live — can’t you?”

“That can never be now.