“I should imagine they were grateful.”
“Very very grateful. Papa always said it was a disgrace that they did not have proper medical care and doctors in places like Leadville for a great number of people died because there was nobody skilled available to treat them.”
“So you and your mother acted as physicians,” Lord Harleston observed as if he spoke to himself.
“We could only help people with minor injuries, of course, and Papa made us promise that they would never come inside the house. So they sat on the verandah and when that was full on the ground outside. When Mama grew tired, Papa used to send them away and – it was pathetic when they begged him to allow them to come back the next day.”
Lord Harleston did not say anything and once again, as if she read his thoughts, Nelda went o
