She answered for herself directly, though he had put the question in a whisper.
"Oh, decidedly unwell! Oh, very unwell indeed," she said confidentially.

"Not pain, you know--trouble.

Not bodily so much as nervous, nervous! The truth is," in a subdued voice and trembling, "we have had death here.

There was poison in the house.

I am very susceptible to such horrid things.