Chapter ElevenSheena was too distraught at the moment to notice anyone or anything save Uncle Patrick, but afterwards she realised how efficiently Monsieur Bonnet had coped with the emergency.
It was he who sent one person running for a doctor and another for a Priest. It was he who thought of and superintended the move of Patrick O’Donovan from the kitchen into the living room, where they laid him on a low couch.
Faintly in the background of Sheena’s anxiety she heard them chattering and expressions of sympathy from the women and realised that the men too were offering her awkwardly their consolations.
Yet she was blind, deaf and oblivious to everything except Uncle Patrick himself.
It was as if she felt that by concentrating on him she could force some of her own youth and vitality i
