Is Matilda getting over it ?" "I hardly know.

She is not out of danger; but Mr.Hillary has hopes of her.

One of the other servants has taken it, and is worse than Matilda.
Mr.Hillary has been with her three times to-day, and is coming again.
She was ill when I last wrote to you, Val; but we did not know it." "Which of them is it ?" he asked.
"The dairymaid; a stout girl, who has never had a day's illness before.
I don't suppose you know her.

There was some trouble with her.

She would not take any medicine; would not do anything she ought to have done, and the consequence is that the fever has got dangerously ahead.