To awake the gentleman on the bed would have required an earthquake.

She lit a candle and stole over to the bedside.
It was not Percy; it was not anyone like Percy.

She felt it was not the man that ever could have been her husband, under any circumstances.

In his present condition her sentiment towards him was that of positive dislike.

Her only desire was to get rid of him.
But something there was about him which seemed familiar to her.