Martha, however, declared that if she were alone with her mistress the doctor would be sent for; and she now petitioned for aid from Clara.

Clara was, of course, by her aunt's bedside in a few minutes, and in a few minutes more the doctor from the other side of the way was there also.
It was ten o'clock before Captain Aylmer and Miss Amedroz met at breakfast, and they had before that been together in Mrs.
Winterfield's room.

The doctor had told Captain Aylmer that his aunt was very ill--very ill, dangerously ill.

She had been wrong to go into such a place as the cold, unaired Town-hall, and that, too, in the month of November; and the fatigue had also been too much for her.

Mrs.Winterfield, too, had admitted to Clara that she knew herself to be very ill.