She bore her bodily sufferings with surprising patience, and even made light of them; and she would thank me most gratefully when I waited on her.
I was never long in her room.

There was no reading or singing now.
Nothing would induce her to keep me from Susan.

She used to beg me to go back to Susan and leave her to Kitty.

I never forgot Susan's look of astonishment when I told her this.
'Somehow, it doesn't sound like Phoebe,' she said, looking at me a little wistfully.

'Are you sure you understand her, Miss Garston ?--that something has not put her out?
She has often sulked with me like that.' 'Oh, Phoebe never sulks now,' I returned, smiling at this view of the case.