(seq. 9)

grief to their inevitable sorrows. Sometimes May understood
this & one afternoon she made up her mind to go to her friend
Mrs Merriam and ask her what she should do to make her-
self a pleasanter companion. /the two had been fond of each other
ever since Mrs Merriam had come to H[alberston?] years before
& her friends pretty home had been May's refuge & resting-place
from many of her daily frets. She had for Mrs Merriam that feeling
of reverence admiration of respectful love that nearly most girls havefor an older woman
sometimes & that corresponds to her hero-worship of their brothers.
It was quite late when she started this afternoon & she hurried
along thinking of anything rather than the steps she was taking
the ground has crossed with sun & as she went was a crossing
a few steps [just?] [?] Mrs [Merriam's?] a sleigh being driven rapidly by
1 of her men came down the road May had on a hood &so did not
hear the sleigh bells & only looked up when one of the men
shouted She turned quickly to go back slipped & fell in the
[crossing?] the man attempted to pull back his horse but it was
going at a good gait & he was so close to her by that time that it
was impossible to stop. She must inevitably have been
over if a man who had been a little distance behind her
had not leaped to her side & dragged her a little out of the way [so?]
very little that the runners of the sleigh passed over one of
the floating ends of the scarf she had about her head the
men who were driving stopped long enough to see that no harm