MISQUAH — Ruth Aune is home. The longtime children’s librarian, who was taken from the Chain over the Fourth of July weekend and spent the holiday away receiving care, returned this week and is, by every account that reaches this office, recovering — slowly, on doctor’s orders, and against her own strong preference for doing so quickly.

Out of respect for Mrs. Aune and her family, this newspaper has not inquired into particulars, and will not. What we can report is what the town has been glad to hear: that she is back in her own house, that the outlook is good, and that she has been instructed to rest, an instruction those who know her expect to hold for approximately as long as it takes her to grow bored.

The first sign of that boredom has already appeared. According to Megan Tollefson, who has minded the library desk in her absence, Mrs. Aune’s earliest questions on returning concerned not her own condition but the summer reading program — specifically, how many children had enrolled, and whether the animal stickers were holding out. Told the enrollment number (see accompanying story), she is said to have been satisfied, and to have offered one correction to the shelving.

The library has carried on. Ms. Tollefson, a 2017 Lakeside graduate who had been substituting, will remain at the desk through the summer while Mrs. Aune recovers, and reports that story time has run every Friday without interruption. “The kids ask about her,” she said. “I tell them she’s resting and she’ll be cross if the ladder isn’t full when she’s back. That gets results.”

The town, for its part, has responded in the way the town responds, which is with food. The Aune porch has, by report, not been without a covered dish since Tuesday, and the family has asked us to convey their thanks, and their gentle request that the casseroles slow to a pace one household can reasonably eat.

Mrs. Aune is not receiving visitors at present, but cards may be left at the library, where Ms. Tollefson has promised to deliver them, and where the reading ladder is, as instructed, being kept full.