She must go off with it into the dark alone.
There was a page or two more, giving some details of the accident.

Some heavy timbers had fallen while they were making some extensions, and Jack had been crushed under them.

The blow on the spine had caused paralysis of both limbs.

When Phil finished the last sentence, he sat staring helplessly at the floor, wishing he could think of something to say; something comforting and hopeful, for Joyce's shoulders still heaved convulsively, and Betty was crying quietly over by the window.
But he could find no grain of comfort in the whole situation.

Mrs.Ware had rejoiced in the fact that his life had been spared, but to Phil, death seemed infinitely preferable to the crippled helpless half-existence which the future held out for poor Jack.
Of all the young fellows of his acquaintance, he could think of none on whom such a blow would fall more crushingly.