Consequently I myself have been compelled to nurse him.

Monsieur, if you were a woman, you would know what men are when they are ill--how fretful, how difficult.

There is not much distraction for the woman who nurses them.

So, as I am in the house most of the day, I find what amusement I can in watching the doings of my neighbours.

You will not blame me.
"A month ago the house almost directly opposite to us was taken furnished for the summer by a Mme.Rossignol.She is a widow, but during the last fortnight a young gentleman has come several times in the afternoon to see her, and it is said in the street that he is going to marry her.