Those cases of panic seldom recover.

And Miss Heale may very likely follow her.

She has shrieked and sobbed herself into it, poor fool! and Grace must go to her at once; she may bring her to common sense and courage, and that is the only chance." Grace went, and literally talked and prayed Miss Heale into life again.
"You are an angel," said Tom to her that very evening, when he found the girl past danger.
"Mr.Thurnall!" said Grace, in a tone of sad and most meaning reproof.
"But you are! And these owls are not worthy of you." "This is no time for such language, sir! After all, what am I doing more than you ?" And Grace went upstairs again, with a cold hard countenance which belied utterly the heart within.
That was the critical night of all.

The disease seemed to have done its worst in the likeliest spots: but cases of panic increased all the afternoon; and the gross number was greater than ever.
Tom did not delay inquiring into the cause: and he discovered it.
Headley, coming out the next morning, after two hours' fitful sleep, met him at the gate: his usual business-like trot was exchanged for a fierce and hurried stamp.

When he saw Frank, he stopped short, and burst out into a story which was hardly intelligible, so interlarded was it with oaths.
"For Heaven's sake! Thurnall, calm yourself, and do not swear so frightfully; it is so unlike you! What can have upset you thus ?" "Why should I not curse and swear in the street," gasped he, "while every fellow who calls himself a preacher is allowed to do it in the pulpit with impunity! Fine him five shillings for every curse, as you might if people had courage and common sense, and then complain of me! I am a fool, I know, though.