Moreover she felt a curious slackness and shrinking from exertion--even the exertion of talking.

As Eleanor had divined, she had caught a slight chill at Nemi, and the effects of it were malarious, in the Italian way.

She was conscious of a little shiveriness and languor, and of a wish to lie or sit quite still.

But Aunt Pattie was administering quinine, and keeping a motherly eye upon her.
There was nothing, according to her, to be alarmed about.
At the end of a couple of hours, Manisty came out from his study much discomposed.

Alice Manisty shut herself up in her room, and Manisty summoned Eleanor to walk up and down a distant path with him.
When luncheon came Alice Manisty did not appear.