She was alarmed out of all presence of mind; and her indignation with the woman who had requited my kindness by allowing me to go into a house infected with fever knew no bounds.

She had no pity to spare for her when the news reached us that the child was dead.
Nothing further came of it for some time.

Days passed, and it was almost forgotten, only I became decidedly ill-tempered.

A captious irritability possessed me, alternating with fits of unaccountable fatigue.

At that time I was always either tired or cross, and sometimes both.