Grandfather intervenes and gets injured in a scuffle with one of the robbers. One night, though, robbers enter the coffeehouse through an open window and attack Mattie, who's sleeping downstairs.
Matilda does her best to provide food for herself and her grandfather, scavenging what she can from the small garden. Once recovered, Matilda and Grandfather return to the city where they unfortunately find the coffeehouse completely ransacked by looters and thieves.
Flagg, a nurse, flirts with Grandfather and helps Matilda get back on her feet. Instead, they recommend bed rest and food. Benjamin Rush, don't believe in bleeding their patients. Deveze and other French doctors who, unlike Dr. When Matilda wakes, she's in a bed at Bush Hill, a hospital staffed by Dr. She starts to feel dizzy, and the next thing you know, everything goes black. Not even the farmer and his family will come to their rescue! (It's every family for themselves, apparently.) Abandoned in the country, Matilda tries to care for her ailing grandfather (he's not in good shape, but doesn't have yellow fever), but falls ill herself with the fever herself. When they get stopped by town guards, though, Matilda and her grandfather are mistaken for fever patients and booted from the wagon. To please Lucille, Matilda and her grandfather set off for the safety of the country in a wagon with a farmer and his family. (An unfortunate practice popularized, as we learn, by the physician Benjamin Rush.) During the illness, Matilda's mother demands that her daughter be removed to the country to avoid becoming infected with yellow fever too. One doctor after another visits the coffeehouse and, soon enough, they start draining her blood in an effort to cure her. The two have been friends for a long time, but Matilda is starting to see the chap in a whole new, hearts-and-flowers kind of light.Īnyhow, Matilda's very own mother, Lucille, is the next person to fall ill. Around this time, we're also introduced to the ever-so-dreamy Nathaniel Benson, a painter's apprentice, who Matilda runs into at the marketplace. More and more cases of the fever start popping up, and rumors of an epidemic spread through the coffeehouse and across the city. Turns out she came down with a case of the fever, and the next thing you know, she's being buried. One day, the coffeehouse's serving girl, Polly, doesn't show up for work. A typical teenager, Mattie is always in the middle of daydreams, beginning to notice boys and getting into all kinds of arguments with her single mother, Lucille. Eliza, a free black woman, is the coffeehouse cook. Matilda "Mattie" Cook is a fourteen-year-old girl living above a coffeehouse in Philadelphia with her mother, grandfather (a former military man), a parrot named King George, and an orange cat named Silas.
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