Luke's Wife by Evelyn R. Garratt

Gwen, in the drawing-room, had hidden her face in the sofa cushion. She / had not wanted to hear the dreadful steps of the men carrying in the / stretcher.

She was feeling frightened and unstrung and as if she had lost Rachel. / Since that fearful moment when the floor of the cottage gave way and / Luke was buried in its ruins, her sister had not spoken a word to her. / Her dazed condition frightened Gwen; and she almost dreaded seeing her.