Lady Bridget always looked back upon the next few days as a confused nightmare.

She awoke in the grip of fever--that malarial kind which is common in Australia--tried to get up as usual, but fell back upon her bed, faint and dizzy.

Her brows ached.

She had alternations of burning heat and icy coldness.

There came active periods in the dull lethargy which is often a phase of fever, and from which she only roused herself at the spur of some urgent call on her faculties.