'
'And I suppose seemed when you started to be unnecessary.'
'Quite unnecessary.'
'Does she complain again now?'
'She did today;--a little.'
The next morning Lady Mary could not leave her bed, and the Duke
in his sorrow was obliged to apply to Mrs Finn. After what had
passed on the previous day Mrs Finn of course called, and was
shown at once up to her young friend's room. There she found the
girl in great pain, lying with her two thin hands up to her head,
and hardly able to utter more than a word. Shortly after that Mrs
Finn was alone with the Duke, and then there took place a
conversation between them which the lady thought to be very
remarkable.
'Had I better send for a doctor from England?' he asked. In answer
to this Mrs Finn expressed her opinion that such a measure was
hardly necessary, that the gentleman from the town who had been
called in seemed to know what he was about, and that the illness,
lamentable as it was, did not seem to be in any way dangerous.
'One cannot tell what it comes from,' said the Duke dubiously.
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