137/164 These lines said 'Come!' and she went, for reasons which may be clear to you who were acquainted with her weak as well as strong points. By chance or by intention on her part or yours, every servant was out of the house by nine o'clock, and her brother, too. Some shock to her feelings--you may know its character and you may not--drove her from a state of apparent health into the wildest delirium in a few hours. It was not your letter--if your story is true about that letter--or she would have shown its effect immediately upon receiving it; that is, in the early evening. |