The Stony Path
“In fact it was many weeks before he visited Stone Farm, and then it was with a message to say that Eva was very ill and not expected to last the week, and that she was asking for her mother. It was Polly who answered the door to him one bitterly cold November day – the heat of the baking-hot summer England had both enjoyed and endured being nothing but a distant memory. The last two months had been difficult ones: Alice had been taken ill with acute bronchitis in the middle of September and it ...had been touch and go for a few weeks in spite of the twenty-four-hour care Polly had given her grandmother. Even now the old woman rarely left her bed and was a shadow of her former self, but since she had moved back into her old room – Ruth had slept with her mother for a few weeks while her grandmother was at her worst so Walter was disturbed as little as possible; Polly resting on a single pallet by the side of the bed – Alice’s spirits were higher. But the extensive nursing and lack of sleep had taken its toll, as Polly’s pallor and the deep shadows under her lovely eyes indicated, and Luke’s voice was concerned as he said, ‘You look tired, lass.MoreLess
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