Now, what shall we put in the box for Dan ?' And Mrs Jo worked off her impatience to get hold of the invalid by sending comforts enough for a hospital.
Cheering accounts soon began to come, and at length Dan was pronounced able to travel, but seemed in no haste to go home, though never tired of hearing his nurses talk of it.
'Dan is strangely altered,' wrote Laurie to Jo; 'not by this illness alone, but by something which has evidently gone before.

I don't know what, and leave you to ask; but from his ravings when delirious I fear he has been in some serious trouble the past year.

He seems ten years older, but improved, quieter, and so grateful to us.

It is pathetic to see the hunger in his eyes as they rest on Ted, as if he couldn't see enough of him.

He says Kansas was a failure, but can't talk much; so I bide my time.