Luke's Wife by Evelyn R. Garratt

Mrs. Greville's illness not only gave Rachel more work to do in the / parish, but took up a certain amount of her time in visiting her and / seeing that she was well looked after. And her mother-in-law, being / such an active woman was not an easy patient to do with. Her incapacity / to help her son was trying in the extreme to her, and she was one of / those people who look on illness as a humiliation. The atmosphere of / the sick room was not a happy one.

Moreover, Rachel found that visiting her meant various little extra / duties to perform, as there was someone or other always on Mrs. / Greville's mind. Would Rachel give Mrs. Jones a look as her heart / was constantly giving her trouble; and Mrs. Jacob was probably in / great need of a grocery ticket. She would like to know also if Mrs. / Grayston's baby had arrived, and how she was. And by-the-bye, she had / promised to lend a book the day before she was taken ill to that poor / crippled man in Rainer Street. Then two or three women ought to be / looked up who had not lately been to the mothers' meeting. And though / Miss Sweet had not told her, she felt sure that her young man was going / to spend the week end with them soon, and that in all probability / she would not be likely to take her class at the school that Sunday. / Someone ought to be found to take her place.