And at the fifth week, just as with the native who had died, she heard that Walderhurst was ill.

During the next four weeks she was sick with the tension of combined horror and delight.
But he did not die in the tenth week.

They heard that he had gone to Tangiers with a party of notable people, and that his "slight" indisposition had passed, leaving him in admirable health and spirits.
Her husband had known nothing of her frenzy.

She would not have dared to tell him.

There were many things she did not tell him.