In her illness she was nursed by the same woman who helped poor Mrs.Hood when Emily was in her fever.

This woman, it appears, was induced to talk about Emily, and gave it as a secret that Emily's illness had something to do with an attachment between her and Mr.Dagworthy, her father's employer.

Her grounds for believing this were, first of all, the fact of Emily frequently uttering his name in her delirium, with words which seemed to refer to some mystery between them; then the circumstance of Mr.Dagworthy's having, shortly after, left a note at the house, with special injunctions to the servant that it should be given into Emily's own hands.

This story, you may imagine, surprised me not a little.

A few days later Mr.Dagworthy dined with us, and I took an opportunity of talking with him; it seemed to me certain that Emily had some special place in his thoughts.