But you cannot possibly understand how this blow has fallen on Me.

I am crushed.
Madame Pratolungo!" (he appealed to me, in my corner); "Mrs.Finch!" (he appealed to his wife, in _her_ corner)--"I am crushed.

There is no other word to express it but the word I have used.

Crushed." He stopped in the middle of the room.

He looked expectantly at me--he looked expectantly at his wife.