Of course it makes a new anxiety.

Mrs.Hood has not dared to hint at the truth, but it cannot be concealed for long.' 'But this is most extraordinary,' Wilfrid exclaimed, 'What, then, was the origin of her illness ?' 'That is the mystery.

Mrs.Hood's memory seems to be confused, but I got her to allow that the feverish symptoms were declared even the night before the death was known.

I hardly like to hint it, but it really seemed to me as if she were keeping something back.

One moment she said that Emily had been made ill by anxiety at her father's lateness in coming home that night, and the next she seemed, for some reason, unwilling to admit that it was so.