It seemed to indicate a threat; but for the moment it did not disturb her so much as the review of her moral prostration.

She wrote some lines to her lawyers, quoting one of Mr.Warwick's sentences.

That done, his letter was dismissed.

Her intolerable languor became alternately a defeating drowsiness and a fever.

She succeeded in the effort to smother the absolute cause: it was not suffered to show a front; at the cost of her knowledge of a practised self-deception.