Following Heavenward by Pansy

OF course she went. And of course, now that the truth was known, much was done.

Dr. Everett was summoned. The wretched bed, with its distressing rags, was turned out altogether, and a comfortable one took its place. Broths and teas and jellies and physical comfort of every kind were furnished, and the doctor did his best to battle with the disease that long years of want and misery had fastened upon their victim. It was all too late, of course. It was true what Mr. Roberts sadly said, that half of the effort, expended years or even months before, might have saved the poor, tortured life; but now!