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Show 164 "find kind friends" and to have a "respite from study," adding somewhat wistfully, "If it had been possible I would like to have made some money but I must not complain." They are off to the boat early next day, the new friends not anxious to see her and the baby leave. "They seem to love Olea dearly." The fact that it is cloudy and rainy does not mar the trip, for there are "large ships and great ocean steamers" to watch, and "Mrs. Wilson is a lively and agreeable traveling companion." Reached 2204 Ingersol at noon, weary and hungry in soul and body, but two good letters from Milford soon alleviated the soul yearning and some bread and butter supplied the tissue waste and I was soon ready to begin the task of putting things to rights preparatory to resuming my studies...14 On her first day back, Ellis witnesses an "interesting obstetric case." For a week thereafter she battles chills and fever and endeavors to keep going, though she feels so "miserable" that, were she at home with kind friends to care for her, she'd have given in and stayed in bed. A visit to the Medical University, then regarded as "the greatest institution of its kind in America" is followed by a quick tour through the Alms House where the things she sees in the "insane department will not soon be effaced" from her memory. As her little Burt turns three, Ellis realizes that she has been separated from him for over half of his life. She takes Olea and accompanies Mrs. Wilson to the beautiful Laurel Hill Cemetery. While there, admiring a "gorgeous Indian summer's sunset," she makes a mis-step, severely spraining her ankle, but is glad the baby was not hurt. |