A Service of Love

0:00 wraps, and bandages. How is this? asked Joe after the usual greetings. Delia laughed, but not very

0:06 joyously. Clementina, she explained, insisted upon a Welsh rabbit after her lesson. She is such a

0:13 queer girl. Welsh rabbits at five in the afternoon. The general was there. You should have seen him

0:19 run for the chafing dish, Joe, just as if there wasn't a servant in the house. I know Clementina

0:24 isn't in good health. She's so nervous. In serving the rabbit, she spilled a great lot of it, boiling

0:30 hot, over my hand and wrist. It hurt awfully, Joe, and the dear girl was so sorry. But General

0:36 Pinckney, Joe, that old man nearly went distracted. He rushed downstairs and sent somebody, they said

0:42 the furnace man or somebody in the basement, out to a drugstore for some oil and things to bind it up

0:47 with. It doesn't hurt so much now. What's this? asked Joe, taking the hand tenderly and pulling at

0:54 some white strands beneath the bandages. It's something soft, said Delia, that had oil on it.

1:00 Oh, Joe, did you sell another sketch? She had seen the money on the table. Did I? said Joe. Just ask

1:06 the man from Peoria. He got his depot today, and he isn't sure, but he thinks he wants another

1:11 park scape and a view on the Hudson. What time this afternoon did you burn your hand, Delia?

1:17 Five o'clock, I think, said Delia plaintively. The iron, I mean the rabbit, came off the fire about

1:22 that time. You ought to have seen General Pinckney, Joe, when—' Sit down here a moment, Delia, said

1:28 Joe. He drew her to the couch, sat beside her, and put his arm across her shoulders. What have you

1:34 been doing for the last two weeks, Delia? he asked. She braved it for a moment or two, with an eye full

1:40 of love and stubbornness, and murmured a phrase or two vaguely of General Pinckney, but at length

1:46 down went her head, and out came the truth and tears.