In a small district near Washington Square, there was a strange village called Greenwich Village, where many artists lived in their studios. Among them were Joanna, called 'Johnsy', and Sue.
Johnsy and Sue had their studio at the top of a three-story brick building. They had come from different parts of the world: one from California, and the other from Maine. They had many tastes in common, and so had decided to rent a studio together.
As the seasons changed, in November, in the bitter cold, many artists in the village caught pneumonia. Unfortunately, Johnsy caught the dreadful disease. She lay on her bed, hardly able to move, looking through the small Dutch window-panes at the wall of the next brick house.
