The doctor spoke cheerfully, but looked sober, and Mrs.Pecq began to fear that Janey was to be a cripple for life.

She said nothing, but Jill's quick eyes saw an added trouble in the always anxious face, and it depressed her spirits, though she never guessed half the mischief the fall had done.
The telegraph was a great comfort, and the two invalids kept up a lively correspondence, not to say traffic in light articles, for the Great International was the only aerial express in existence.

But even this amusement flagged after a time; neither had much to tell, and when the daily health bulletins had been exchanged, messages gave out, and the basket's travels grew more and more infrequent.

Neither could read all the time, games were soon used up, their mates were at school most of the day, and after a week or two the poor children began to get pale and fractious with the confinement, always so irksome to young people.
"I do believe the child will fret herself into a fever, mem, and I'm clean distraught to know what to do for her.

She never used to mind trifles, but now she frets about the oddest things, and I can't change them.