—Tennyson.
They brought the housekeeper and the family physician. The latter pronounced the patient very ill, and with good reason; for she passed out of one swoon only to fall into another, till they thought that her end was surely near at hand.
However after some hours the immediate danger seemed over and the doctor left, promising to return before night.
Mrs. Dinsmore had been awed and frightened into something slightly akin to terror and remorse on account of her excessive harshness, but now shook it off.
"Really she takes her dismissal very hard," she remarked to Mildred as the latter was leaving the dinner table. "I had no idea she was so much attached to Roselands."
"I do not think it could be that alone, aunt," Mildred returned in surprise and disgust.
"What then?"
"Her relative's disgrace; the poverty and distress to herself and a mother and sister dependent on her, consequent on being thrown out of employment."
Then with a sudden recollection of that paper with its marked paragraph, Mildred hastened from the room and went in search of it.