Do not worry, they will take good care of you." When I heard Richard shut the carriage-door and drive away rapidly, I felt as if I were abandoned, and by the time he returned with the Doctor, I was in a state that warranted them in supposing me unconscious, tossing and moaning, and uttering inarticulate words.
The Doctor stood beside me, and talked about me to Richard with as much freedom as if I had been a corpse.
"I may as well be frank with you," he said, after a few moments of examination.

"I apprehend great trouble from the brain.

How long has she been in this condition ?" "She has been unlike herself since yesterday; as soon as I saw her, at seven o'clock last night, I noticed she was looking badly.

She answered me in an abstracted, odd way, and was unlike herself, as I have said.
But she had been under much excitement for some time." "Tell me, if you please, all about it; and how long she has been under this excitement." "She has been often agitated, and quite overstrained in feeling for some time.

Three weeks ago I thought her looking badly.