The sonnet read in the garden is Sonnet 141 by William Shakespeare.
Antoinette Bower would later play a similar role, as a nurse enlisted to expedite her patient's demise, in Die Sister, Die! (1978).
Two episodes broadcast only two weeks apart, A Woman's Help (1961) and Coming, Mama (1961) both involved a bedridden character being served by family members. In both of the otherwise unrelated dramas, the characters make use of exactly the same distinctive white plastic bed tray to serve meals on.