And then she put in something referring to a scene they'd had that day in which he had begged her to fly with him, and she had made him promise to leave next morning, pacifying him by a counter promise to write.
She told me about her fever and ague--you don't need proof of that after the state in which you found her--and how Mr Maule carried her to her room and left her there after a few minutes.

She doesn't remember anything after that, until she came out of the fever and saw you--with the face and manner I can well imagine--standing by her bedside.
I am sure that Bridget began to 'find herself' then, and that the way in which she left Moongarr was one of those shocks which make a woman touch reality.

It may be only for that once in her life, but she can never be the same again.

You have put your brand on your wife, Colin--that is quite plain to me.

She has changed inwardly more than outwardly.
But she is extremely reticent about her feelings towards you.