Cornelia and Arabella caught her hands; she was the youngest, and had been their pet.

It gratified them that Adela should show a deep and keen feeling.

Adela did not check herself from a demonstration that enabled her to look broadly, as it were, on her own tenderness of heart.
Following many outbursts, she asked, "And the illness--what is it?
not its cause--itself!" A voice said, "Paralysis!" Adela's tears stopped.

She gazed on both faces, trying with open mouth to form the word..