The wailing grew wilder and wilder.
"What is it?
What is it ?" Mrs.Lennox gasped.
"Some one has died," answered the boy officer.

"You did not say it had broken out among your servants." "I did not know!" the Mem Sahib cried.

"Come with me! Come with me!" and she turned and ran into the house.
After that, appalling things happened, and the mysteriousness of the morning was explained to Mary.

The cholera had broken out in its most fatal form and people were dying like flies.

The Ayah had been taken ill in the night, and it was because she had just died that the servants had wailed in the huts.