Fitzpiers had hardly been gone an hour when Grace began to sicken.

The next day she kept her room.

Old Jones was called in; he murmured some statements in which the words "feverish symptoms" occurred.

Grace heard them, and guessed the means by which she had brought this visitation upon herself.
One day, while she still lay there with her head throbbing, wondering if she were really going to join him who had gone before, Grammer Oliver came to her bedside.

"I don't know whe'r this is meant for you to take, ma'am," she said, "but I have found it on the table.