CHAPTER VI .-- HER INGENUITY INSTIGATES HER.
September 19 .-- Three months of anxious care--till at length I have taken the extreme step of writing to him.

Our chief distress has been caused by the state of poor Caroline, who, after sinking by degrees into such extreme weakness as to make it doubtful if she can ever recover full vigour, has to-day been taken much worse.

Her position is very critical.
The doctor says plainly that she is dying of a broken heart--and that even the removal of the cause may not now restore her.

Ought I to have written to Charles sooner?
But how could I when she forbade me?
It was her pride only which instigated her, and I should not have obeyed.
Sept.

26 .-- Charles has arrived and has seen her.