With another strange, sick convulsion, she turned away, as if she were sick, could feel dissolution setting-in in her body.

For with her mind she was unable to attend to his words, he caught her, as it were, beneath all her defences, and destroyed her with some insidious occult potency.
'Yes,' she said, as if she did not know what she were saying.

'Yes,' and she swallowed, and tried to regain her mind.

But she could not, she was witless, decentralised.

Use all her will as she might, she could not recover.