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A long, long week went by, and it was now the evening of the 16th of November. Nurse Bradfield had been out for an hour after lunch, and while she was out Ivy had "looked after" Jervis. She made a point of doing this at some time of her day, though it was always overfull.
Being both good humoured and good natured, Nurse Bradfield fell in easily with any plan proposed by her patient's wife. She had become very fond of Jervis Lexton, and, though aware of Ivy Lexton's selfishness and innate frivolity and levity, she was yet attracted, in spite of herself, by the younger woman's beauty, and what was in very truth an exceptional charm of manner, and what some of Ivy's friends called her cheeriness.