She had fainted away." I interrupted Mrs.Ashleigh here.

"Has Miss Ashleigh been subject to fainting fits ?" "No, never.

When she recovered she seemed bewildered, disinclined to speak.

I got her to bed, and as she then fell quietly to sleep, my mind was relieved.

I thought it only a passing effect of excitement, in a change of abode; or caused by something like malaria in the atmosphere of that part of the grounds in which I had found her seated." "Very likely.