She could not eat, she felt as if she were suffocating.
In the evening she was attacked by such an excruciating internal pain that she thought she must be dying.

She thought this feeling of prostration was due to the fact that it was two days since she had seen Robert.

It was only nine o'clock.

She hoped that she might find him still at home, and put on her hat.
"Mamma, I have to go to the theatre this evening.

I am off." Out of consideration for her mother, she was in the habit of making such veiled explanations.
"Go, my child, but don't come home too late." Ligny lived with his parents.