She had feared for a long time that her mamma was dying of consumption, but she told no one, because everybody was against her and her mamma.

Her mamma never knew that she was dying, and sometimes she used to get so much better that Grizel hoped she would live a long time, but that hope never lasted long.

The reason she sat so much with Ballingall was just to find out what doctors did to dying people to make them live a little longer, and she watched his straiking to be able to do it to her mamma when the time came.

She was sure none of the women would consent to straik her mamma.

On the previous night, she could not say at what hour, she had been awakened by a cold wind, and so she knew that the door was open.