If I tell her that, she will have a tremendous quarrel with the Doctor.

As it is, he will scarcely speak to her.

So you see, Mademoiselle Gerardy, that I, too, am in a bad plight.
What am I to do ?" Then a young American spoke.

He had been getting gradually worse since he came to Petershof, but his brother, a bright sturdy young fellow, seemed quite unconscious of the seriousness of his condition.
"And what am I to do ?" he asked pathetically.

"My brother does not even think I am ill.