Mother and I are both poorly too.

Good-night, girls, both." And he turned away with an air of hopeless depression, that was far more pitiful than the loudest complaining.
The sisters went away together, silent, and feeling quite "out" with each other.

But Sophia really had a nervous attack, and was shivery and sick with it.

By the lighted candle in her hand, Charlotte saw that her very lips were white, and that heavy tears were silently rolling down her wan cheeks.

They washed all of Charlotte's anger away; she forgot her resolution not to enter her sister's room again, and at its door she said, "Let me stay with you till you can sleep, Sophia; or I will go, and ask Ann to make you a cup of strong coffee.