The accident happened on a Saturday. On
the Sunday there was no comfort. On the Monday the patient's
recollection and mind were re-established, and the doctor thought
that perhaps, with great care, his constitution would pull him
through. On that day the consternation at Harrington was so great
that Mrs Spooner would not go to the meet. She came over from
Spoon Hall, and spent a considerable part of the day in the sick
man's room. 'It's sure to come right if it's above the vitals,'
she said expressing an opinion which had come from much
experience. 'That is,' she added, 'unless the neck's broke. When
poor old Jack Stubbs drove his head into his cap and dislocated
his wertebury, of course it was all up with him.' The patient
heard this and was seen to smile.
On the Tuesday there arose the question of family communication.
As the accident would make its way into the papers a message had
been sent to Polwenning to say that various bones had been broken,
but that the patient was upon the whole doing well. Then there had
been different messages backwards and forwards, in all of which
there had been an attempt to comfort old Mr Tregear.
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