Description
In this story, Elizabeth has just lost her beloved husband and is riddled with pain and suffering from the loss. She goes to visit Miss Gurney, whom she has always admired. Miss Gurney, we learn, first took care of her mother who was injured after a fall from a three, and then of her father, immobilized for the past 10 years after a wagon accident. The father died at age 91 only the winter before. Elizabeth asks of Miss Gurney: "When things happen to people, how can they stand to go on living? Why don't they simply die?" Miss Gurney gives her a thoughtful reply.
Rights
Copyright held by Barbara Camamo, niece and Literary Executor of the Suckow estate. Downloading for nonproft, educational use only.