Though she was well into the mid-fifties, her carefully preserved skin had kept the firmness and the texture of youth, and she still flushed easily and unbecomingly as she had done as a girl.
"He hasn't been a bit well, George.

I am very anxious about him.

You know when he worries over his business, he doesn't eat his meals, and as soon as he stops eating he begins to have nervous dyspepsia.

He has just had a bad attack; that's why he looks so run down and haggard." "Can't the doctor do anything for him ?" "He gave him some drops, but it is so hard to get your father to take medicine.

Rest is what he needs, and, of course, that is out of the question while things are so unsettled.