She detailed to him, explicitly, all that might have contributed to produce it.
"You know, my dear madam," the doctor said, "that at this season we have, even in our healthy country, severe fevers.

Alice's is one of the usual nature; it could have been produced by natural causes.

We cannot say, it may be that the circumstances you have been kind enough to confide to me, have had a bad effect upon her.

The effort to do right, and the fear lest she should err, may have strained her sensitive mind.

She must have felt much distress in parting with Walter, whom she has always loved as a brother.