On retiring for the night, she had a high fever, which continued unabated until morning, when her husband found her really ill; so much so as to make the attendance of a doctor necessary.
A change in the air had taken place during the night, and the temperature had fallen many degrees.

This aided the efforts of the physician, and enabled him so to adapt his remedies as to speedily break the fever.

But the ignorance and awkwardness of Ellen, apparent in her attempts to arrange her bed and chamber, so worried her mind, that she was near relapsing into her former feverish and excited state.

The attendance of an elder maiden sister was just in time.

All care was taken from her thoughts, and she had a chance of recovering a more healthy tone of mind and body.