This reticence deceived poor Mrs.Lee, who saw in her sister's moods only that unrequited attachment for which she held herself solely to blame.

Her gross negligence in allowing Sybil to be improperly exposed to such a risk weighed heavily on her mind.

With a saint's capacity for self-torment, Madeleine wielded the scourge over her own back until the blood came.

She saw the roses rapidly fading from Sybil's cheeks, and by the help of an active imagination she discovered a hectic look and symptoms of a cough.

She became fairly morbid on the subject, and fretted herself into a fever, upon which Sybil sent, on her own responsibility, for the medical man, and Madeleine was obliged to dose herself with quinine.