No doubt that by-and-by I shall derive a little solace from the thought of their company; that when they come I shall even be inveigled into some sort of hilarity with them; but at present, "No." There are some days on which all ills gather together as at a meeting.
This is one.

Barbara is prostrated by a violent headache, and is in such thorough physical pain that even she cannot sympathize with me.

Mr.
Musgrave never makes his now daily appearance--he comes, as I jubilantly notice, as regularly as the postman--until late in the afternoon.

All day, therefore, I must refrain myself and be silent.

And I am never one for brooding with private dumbness over my woes.