and she came back a little later, holding with the tips of her fingers the hat in question, retrieved perhaps from the rubbish heap at the end of the vegetable garden, for to know everything takes too long, for it was fringed with manure and seemed to be rotting away. and what is more she suffered him to put it on, and even helped him do so, helping him to sit up in bed and arranging his pillows in such a way that he might remain propped up without fatigue. (md, pp294, sb)

Please ntoe this work is now framed.