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They celebrated installing them by having supper on the living-room table , with the teapot on one end , and the pitcher full of bellflowers on the other . The Girl took everything prescribed for her , bathed , slept all she could , and worked for health with all the force of her frail being , and as the days went by it seemed to the Harvester her weight grew lighter , her hands hotter , and she drove herself to a gayety almost delirious . He thought he would have preferred a dull , stupid sleep of malaria . There was colour in plenty on her cheeks now , and sometimes he found her wrapped in the white shawl at noon on the warmest days Medicine Woods knew in early August ; and on cool nights she wore the thinnest clothing and begged to be taken on the lake . The Careys came out every other evening and the doctor watched and worked , but he did not get the results he desired . His medicines were not effective . `` David , '' he said one evening , `` I do n't like the looks of this .