Air had always brought him round; now he could feel he was embarked for recovery: and he told her how the farmer and one of his men had lent a shoulder to present him to his old and surest physician--rather like a crippled ghost.

M.Adister was upstairs in bed with one of her headaches.

Captain Con, then, was attending her, Jane supposed: She spoke of him as the most devoted of husbands.
A slight hardening of Philip's brows, well-known to her by this time, caused her to interrogate his eyes.

They were fixed on her in his manner of gazing with strong directness.

She read the contrary opinion, and some hieroglyphic matter besides.
'We all respect him for his single-hearted care of her,' she said.