"
"Oh," she exclaimed, "I am so glad! You see, I needed to change so
much."
"But how has it happened?" exclaimed Cameron. "It is a miracle to me."
"How a miracle?"
For a few moments they walked on in silence, the tote road leading them
into the forest. After a time the nurse said softly,
"It was you who began it."
"I?"
"Yes, you--and then the nurse. Oh, I can never repay her! The day that
you left--that was a dreadful day. The world was all black. I could not
have lived, I think, many days like that. I had to go into town and I
couldn't help going to her. Oh, how good she was to me that day! how
good! She understood, she understood at once. She made me come for a
week to her, and then for altogether. That was the beginning; then I
began to see how foolish I had been."
"Foolish?"
"Yes, wildly foolish! I was like a mad thing, but I did not know then,
and I could not help it."
"Help what?"
"Oh, everything! But the nurse showed me--she showed me--"
"Showed you?"
"Showed me how to take care of myself--to take care of my body--of my
dress--of my hair. Oh, I remember well," she said with a bright little
laugh, "I remember that hair-dresser. Then the doctor came and gave me
books and made me read and study--and then I began to see. Oh, it was
like a fire--a burning fire within me.
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