The calmest of all the troubled household was Mrs.Markland.Fanny, whom the event had awakened from a partial stupor, gradually declined into her former state.

She moved about more like an automaton than a living figure; entering into all the duties and activities appertaining to the approaching change, yet seeming entirely indifferent to all external things.

She was living and suffering in the inner world, more than in the outer.
With the crushing out of a wild, absorbing love, had died all interest in life.

She was in the external world, but, so far as any interest in passing events was concerned, not of it.

Sad, young heart.