She would pretend to fast for days, living on food she had concealed and took secretly in the night.
The nurse was getting worn out.

Kitty Fagan would have had the priest come to the house and sprinkle it with holy water.

The two women were beginning to get nervous themselves.

The Rev.Mr.Stoker said in confidence to Miss Silence, that there was reason to fear she might have been given over for a time to the buffetings of Satan, and that perhaps his (Mr.Stoker's) personal attentions might be useful in that case.

And so it appeared that the "young doctor" was the only being left with whom she had any complete relations and absolute sympathy.