Guy laid the form gently back on the bed, and something in his face must
have told the stricken wife that all was over, for her piercing shriek
chilled everyone to the heart.
Guy was just in time to catch Dexie's fainting form and bear her from the
room, when the children round the bedside understood that they were
fatherless.
CHAPTER XLIII.
Many changes took place in the household during the weeks following Mr.
Sherwood's death. It was a sorrowful time to live through, and a most
unpleasant memory to look back upon.
These were days of trial to Dexie. There was no one in the house that she
could turn to for sympathy, for Louie had returned home the week after the
funeral, and the house seemed desolate.
Mrs. Jarvis was called away by a case of sickness in another household, and
Gussie, finding herself free from all restraint, made so many unreasonable
demands on the patient and willing domestic that she refused to submit to
it longer, and left the house; consequently, the actual work of the
household, as well as the care and responsibility, rested on Dexie's
shoulders.
Mrs. Sherwood had not left her room since the day her husband was buried,
and her frequent hysterical attacks were very alarming to the rest of the
family.
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