Your mother seemed entirely to have recovered from her confinement, and to be enjoying as good health as could be reasonably expected under the circumstances of her husband's indisposition.

But suddenly one of those insidious maladies which are incidental to women in her condition seized upon her.

We had hoped and believed that all such period of danger was already happily past; but, alas! it was not so, and within a few hours of her first seizure all realised how serious was her case.

Everything that human skill can do under such conditions was done, but without avail.

Symptoms of blood-poisoning showed themselves, accompanied with high fever, and within a week she was in her coffin.
Though her delirium was terrible to watch, yet I thank God to this day, that if she was to die, it pleased Him to take her while in an unconscious condition.