'We hope not.

But I should not be sent with her to Torquay if she were not very ill.

She is very ill, and it is absolutely essential that nothing should be allowed to excite her painfully.

I tell you this, Charley, to excuse our apparent unkindness in not having you here sooner.' Charley walked by her in silence.

Why should his coming excite her more than Norman's?
What could there be painful to her in seeing him?
Did the fact of his having been arrested attach to his visit any peculiar probability of excitement?
'Do not suppose that we have not thought of you,' continued Mrs.
Woodward.' We have all done so daily.