Sometimes I can hardly drag through my work.

I hate it so: it makes me cross like a naughty child!" '"Do you know," I said, flinging myself down beside her on the grass and looking up at her, "that it's altogether wrong?
Nature never meant you to feel tired; it's monstrous, it's against the natural order of things!" '"It's London," she said, with her little sigh and the drooping lip that is so prettily pathetic.

"I have the roar in my ears all day, and it seems to be humming through my sleep at night.

And then the crowd, and the hurry people are in, and the quickness and sharpness of things! But I have only a few weeks more," she added, brightening, "and then by October I shall be more used to Europe--the climate and the life." 'I am much impressed, and so is Mrs.Stuart, by the struggle her nervous strength is making against London.

All my nursing of you, Marie, and of our mother has taught me to notice these things in women, and I find myself taking often a very physical and medical view of Miss Bretherton.
You see, it is a case of a northern temperament and constitution relaxed by tropical conditions, and then exposed once more in an exceptional degree to the strain and stress of northern life.