Have you been ?' 'Ill?
No.' 'Oh!' the girl exclaimed, upon a sudden thought.

'That reminds me.

I really believe Mrs.Hood is dead; at all events all the blinds were down as I came past.' 'Yes,' was the reply, 'she is dead.

She died early this morning.' 'Well, I never! Isn't poor Emily having a shocking Christmas! I declare, when I saw her last week, she looked like a ghost, and worse.' Dagworthy gazed at the fire and said nothing.
'One can't be sorry that it's over,' Jessie went on, 'only it's so dreadful, her father and mother dead almost at the same time.

I'm sure it would have killed me.' 'What is she going to do ?' Dagworthy asked, slowly, almost as if speaking to himself.
'Oh, I daresay it 'll be all right as soon as she gets over it, you know.