But they had brought her a little slate, on which she sometimes wrote her requests, though that, too, was an effort.

Pointing now to the slate, she wrote, while her father held it: 'I want Jerrie.' 'I thought so; and you shall have her for just as long as she will stay,' Frank said; and a servant was dispatched to the cottage with the message that Jerrie must come at once, and come prepared to pass the night, if possible.
It had been very dreary for Maude during the time she had been shut up in her room, to which no one was admitted except her father and mother, the doctor, and the nurse.

Many messages of enquiry and sympathy, however, had come to her from the cottage, and Grassy Spring, and Le Bateau, where Ann Eliza was still kept a prisoner with her sprained ankle; and once Jerrie had written to Maude a note full of love and solicitude and a desire to see her.

As a postscript she added: 'Harold sends his love, and hopes you will soon be better.

You don't know how anxious he is about you.