This upset her temper, and at night she had nightmares, in which she saw clouds of smoke crawling in at her window, snakes on the floor, and crimson flames darting at her from the ceiling.

It was because she was in an abnormal condition of health that the idea of doing something with Hamlet had gained such a hold upon her.
She considered the matter from every point of view.

She did not want to be cruel to the dog; she supposed that after a week or two he would be quite happy with his new master, and, in any case, he had strolled in so casually upon the Cole family that he was accustomed to a wandering life.
She did not intend that anyone should know.

It was to be a deep secret all of her own.
Jeremy was going to school in September, and before then she must make him friendly to her again.

She saw stretching in front of her all the lonely autumn without him and her own memories of the miserable summer to make her wretched.