She will sit there for hours, playing with a doll, but when she has her paroxysms she runs round and round the room, crying out as you heard her just now, and throwing the things about.

Did you notice, sir, that there was no glassware in the room?
She has tried to injure herself with glass and crockery in her violent fits." "How often does she have paroxysms of violent madness ?" asked the chief constable.
"Not often, sir; usually about the turn of the moon, or when there is a gale at sea." "There was a gale at sea last night," said Colwyn.

"Did your mother have an attack then ?" "Peggy said when she came downstairs last night she thought there were signs of an attack coming on, but when I looked in on Mother as I was going to bed, shortly before eleven, she seemed quiet enough, so I locked her door and went to bed." "Do you mean to say that you leave this poor mad woman in her bedroom all night alone ?" asked the chief constable.
"It's the best thing to be done, sir," replied the innkeeper, with an apologetic air.

"We tried having somebody to sleep with her, but it only made her worse, and the doctor who saw her last year said it wasn't necessary.

Peggy is with her a lot in the daytime, and often until she goes to bed.