Almost the last resource was cut off, in the injury her boy had sustained.

She had not looked at his hand, nor did she comprehend the extent of damage it had received.

It was enough, and more than enough, that it was badly hurt--so badly, that a physician had been required to dress it.

How the mother's heart did ache, as she thought of the pain her poor boy had suffered, and might yet be doomed to suffer! And yet, amid this pain, came intruding the thought, which she tried to repel as a selfish thought, that he could work no more, and earn no more, for, perhaps, a long, long time.
Yes, the period of severer trial had evidently come.

She did not permit herself even to hope that her husband when he returned would bring with him enough money to pay the rent.