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`` Yes , '' replied the nurse . `` May I see her this evening ? '' asked Jimmy . `` We 'll ask the doctor , '' she replied ; and the doctor must have given consent , for at six o'clock that evening the nurse brought Edith Hudson to his bedside . The girl came every evening thereafter and sat with Jimmy as long as the nurse would permit her to remain . Jimmy discovered during those periods a new side to her character , a mothering tenderness that filled him with a feeling of content and happiness the moment that she entered the room , and which doubtless aided materially in his rapid convalescence , for until she had been permitted to see him Jimmy had suffered as much from mental depression as from any other of the symptoms of his disease . He had felt utterly alone and uncared for , and in this mental state he had brooded over his failures to such an extent that he had reached a point where he felt that death would be something of a relief .