I had won her full trust, and she obeyed, or tried to obey me, like a child.

But she would faint and grow deadly pale, even if seated a short time.

The heart-beats rose from sixty to one hundred and thirty, and grew feeble; the breath came fast, and she had to lie down at once.

Her skin was dry, sallow, and bloodless, her muscles flabby; and when, at last, after a fortnight more, I set her on her feet again, she had to endure for a time the most dreadful vertigo and alarming palpitations of the heart, while her feet, in a few minutes of feeble walking, would swell so as to present the most strange appearance.

By and by all this went away, and in a month she could walk, sit up, sew, read, and, in a word, live like others.