"All that we can do at present is to be gentle with him, and not to encourage people around him to talk of his illness." On the next morning Lady Fitzgerald did not come down to breakfast, but sent her love to Clara, and begged her guest to excuse her on account of headache.

Sir Thomas rarely came in to breakfast, and therefore his absence was not remarkable.

His daughters, however, went up to see him, as did also his sister; and they all declared that he was very much better.
"It was some sudden attack, I suppose ?" said Clara.
"Yes, very sudden; he has had the same before," said Herbert.

"But they do not at all affect his intellect or bodily powers.

Depression is, I suppose, the name that the doctors would call it." And then at last it became noticeable by them that Lady Clara did not use her left arm.