Nobody laments what has happened more sincerely than I do.

Have you had medical advice ?" "I took her to the sea-side a week since by medical advice." "Has the change of air don e her no good ?" "None whatever.

If anything, the change of air has made her worse.
Sometimes she sits for hours together, as pale as death, without looking at anything, and without uttering a word.

Sometimes she brightens up, and seems as if she was eager to say something; and then Heaven only knows why, checks herself suddenly as if she was afraid to speak.

I could support that.