And then the frightened guests beheld a strange but beautiful and loving thing, such as might have moved any heart to tenderness and wonder.

This great beauty, this worshipped creature, put her arms beneath and about the helpless, awful body--for so its pallor and stillness indeed made it--and lifted it in their powerful whiteness as if it had been the body of a child, and so bore it to a couch near and laid it down, kneeling beside it.
Anne and Osmonde were beside her.

Osmonde pale himself, but gently calm and strong.

He had despatched for a physician the instant he saw the fall.
"My lady," he said, bending over her, "permit me to approach.

I have some knowledge of these seizures.