A fancied immunity is often a premonitory symptom of disease: the system is excited into an instantaneous glow by the first contact of the poisonous seed.
"I don't know, at present, quite how things are with me.

I labour under a great oppression of spirit.

I have a strange thirsty longing to see her face and hear her speech.

If I could only hear from herself that she had done what her best self--of which we have often spoken--ratifies, I should feel more content.

But she trusts her impulses too much; and the habit of loving all she loves with passion, blinds her a little.