She had intended all fall to go with him and select a winter headpiece that would be no discredit to her summer choice, but a sort of numbness was in her bones; so she decided to wait until the coming week before going.

She declined George's pressing invitation to go along to Aunt Ollie's and help load and bring home a part of his share of their summer's crops, on the ground that she had some work to prepare for the coming week.
Then Kate went to her room feeling faint and heavy.

She lay there most of the day, becoming sorrier for herself, and heavier every passing hour.

By morning she was violently ill; when she tried to leave her bed, dizzy and faint.

All day she could not stand.