I don't mind a game of cards.

I play 'Patience' myself when alone.

I mean gambling--there was a lot of money lost and won at Senora Gredos' house!" "Yet she is an invalid I think you said ?" "Yes, ma'am.

She was a dancer, I believe, and fell in some way, so as to break her leg or hurt her back.

She has been lying on a couch for two years unable to move.