Come to Grief
Come to Grief
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Here I was, perching on the end of Rachel Ferns’s bed, wearing a huge, fluffy orange clown wig and a red bulbous nose, making sick children laugh while feeling far from merry inside.
“Have you hurt your arm?” Rachel asked conversationally.
“Banged it,” I said.
She nodded. Linda looked surprised. Rachel said, “When things hurt it shows in people’s eyes.”
She knew too much about pain for a nine-year-old. I said, “I’d better go before I tire you.”
She smiled, not demurring. She, like the children w...earing the other wigs I’d brought, all had very short bursts of stamina. Visiting was down to ten minutes maximum.
I took off the clown wig and kissed Rachel’s forehead. ‘“Bye.” I said.
“You’ll come back?”
“Of course.”
She sighed contentedly, knowing I would. Linda walked with me from the ward to the hospital door.
“It’s ... awful,” she said, forlorn, on the exit steps. Cold air. The chill to come.
I put my arms around her. Both arms. Hugged her.
“Rachel asks for you all the time,”
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Here I was, perching on the end of Rachel Ferns’s bed, wearing a huge, fluffy orange clown wig and a red bulbous nose, making sick children laugh while feeling far from merry inside.
“Have you hurt your arm?” Rachel asked conversationally.
“Banged it,” I said.
She nodded. Linda looked surprised. Rachel said, “When things hurt it shows in people’s eyes.”
She knew too much about pain for a nine-year-old. I said, “I’d better go before I tire you.”
She smiled, not demurring. She, like the children w...earing the other wigs I’d brought, all had very short bursts of stamina. Visiting was down to ten minutes maximum.
I took off the clown wig and kissed Rachel’s forehead. ‘“Bye.” I said.
“You’ll come back?”
“Of course.”
She sighed contentedly, knowing I would. Linda walked with me from the ward to the hospital door.
“It’s ... awful,” she said, forlorn, on the exit steps. Cold air. The chill to come.
I put my arms around her. Both arms. Hugged her.
“Rachel asks for you all the time,”
What to read after Come to Grief?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Dick Francis to read onlineMoreLess
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