But this feeling quickly changed into one of deep anxiety concerning her.

Her father's account of her had increased the uneasiness he previously felt, and he was as anxious to know the doctor's opinion of her, as if his own fate had depended upon it.

He was kept in this painful state of suspense for nearly an hour, when voices were heard at the window, and presently afterwards Hodges was carefully let down.
Bidding the grocer farewell, he desired Leonard to follow him, and led the way towards Cheapside.

They proceeded a short distance in silence, when the latter ventured to remark, "You say nothing about Amabel, sir?
I fear you found her seriously indisposed." "Do not question me about her just now," rejoined the doctor, in a subdued emotion.

"I would rather not discuss the subject." Nothing more was said; for though the apprentice would willingly have continued the conversation, his companion's evident disinclination to pursue it compelled him to desist.