He seemed stupified and shivery.

Ruth became more and more terrified; all the household were asleep except one servant-girl, who was wearied out of what little English she had knowledge of in more waking hours, and she could only answer, "Iss, indeed, ma'am," to any question put to her by Ruth.
She sat by the bedside all night long.

He moaned and tossed, but never spoke sensibly.

It was a new form of illness to the miserable Ruth.

Her yesterday's suffering went into the black distance of long-past years.