She was no longer as softly pleasing, more angular.

Her face was hollow-cheeked, like so many of Rossetti's and Burne-Jones's women.

Her health was really not as good as it had been--the care of two children and a late undiagnosed tendency toward gastritis having reduced her.

In short she was a little run down nervously and suffered from fits of depression.

Cowperwood had noticed this.