her, and I know."

"Well, I fear it is not a case for you, doctor," said Arthur, anxiously.

But the doctor thought differently. There was more the matter with
Graeme than her sister knew, though the home-sickness may have something
to do with it; and then he added,--

"Her strength must have been severely tried to bring her to this state
of weakness."

Arthur hesitated a moment.

"There was long illness in the family--and then death--my sister's
first, and then my father's. And then I brought the rest here."

It was not easy for Arthur to say all this. In a little he added with
an effort,--

"I fear I have not done well in bringing them. But they wished to come,
and I could not leave them."

"You did right, I have no doubt," said the doctor. "Your sister might
have been ill anywhere. She might have been worse without a change.
The thing is to make her well again--which, I trust, we can soon do--
with the help of Miss Rosie, who will make a patient and cheerful nurse,
I am sure."

"Yes," said Rose, gravely. "I will try."

Arthur said something about taking them to the country, out of the dust
and heat of the town.

"Yes," said the doctor. "The heat is bad. But it will not last long
now, and on the whole, I think she is better where she is, at present.
There is no danger. She will soon be as well as usual, I think."

But it was not very soon. Indeed, it was a long time before Graeme was
as well as usual; not until the leaves on the willows had grown withered
and grey, and the summer had quite gone. Not until kind Doctor
McCulloch had come almost daily for many weeks--long enough for him to
become much interested in both patient and nurse.

A wonderful nurse Rose proved herself to be. At first something was
said about introducing a more experienced person into Graeme's chamber,
but both Rose and Nelly Anderson objected so decidedly to this, and
aided and abetted one another so successfully in their opposition to it,
that the design was given up on condition that Rosie kept well and
cheerful to prove her claim to the title of nurse. She kept cheerful,
but she grew tall and thin, and a great deal too quiet to be like
herself, her brothers thought; so whatever was forgotten or neglected
during the day, Rosie must go out with one of them for a long walk while
the other stayed with Graeme, and by this means the health and spirits
of the anxious little lady were kept from failing altogether. For