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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: so. He might be dead and buried before she recovered
consciousness. The fever that burned her brain would
completely cloud reason for days.
He hastily improvised a stretcher with a blanket
and two strong quilting-poles which stood in the corner
of the room. Nance helped him without question. She
obeyed his slightest suggestion with childlike
submission.
He placed Mary on the stretcher, wrapped her body
in another warm blanket and turned to his nurse and
messenger:
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