I--I don't know very much about it, you see." "You know a little more than that, I think, perhaps when you know me better ?--It is, after all, a matter of trusting one's doctor." "I do trust you.

But feelings are so difficult to put into words.

And the greatest dread I have about mother's illness is only a feeling, a feeling as if I knew, without quite knowing, that the trouble is deeper than appears.

Jane feels it too, so it can't be all imagination.

It is caused, I think, by a change in mother herself.