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In THosE days Peter was not too popular in his own household. He had been tagging around the south provinces, listening to John the Baptist, and now taking up with Jesus and neglecting the fish business. He who had always been a hard-working family man had become a dreamy, thoughtful fellow, whose boat was splitting at its seams and whose nets were dry. This did not make for peace in Peter's home.
Just at this time Peter's mother-in-law fell ill-not merely down with an aging woman's pains of the moon; no mere sick headaches or cramps, but seriously ill, with a glaze over the eyes, dryness in the throat, cheeks flushed, forehead burning-a painful agony of fever. It was an epidemic illness, that fever, often prevalent in the low country after the first rains of autumn.