ld kill me.

    A t ster grip on my ankle.

    A very bad case, said Dr Cie. o my face. t least.  be afraid, Mrs Rivers! e kno you. e are your friends. e  you o make you well.

    I tried to speak. ried to say. But t also made me dribble; and a bit of dribble fle of my moutruck Dr Cies c I  it. Any his handkerchief.

    Very good, o t ake her.

    t of doors and a room; to a landing, anotried to study t t only so many drab-coloured ceilings and er about a minute I kne me deep into t I . I could not cry out. t  my t, and I still aircase took me do, saying, to you, Mr Bates, and, atcurn, its a tig be, not a sack of feathers

    no a trunk or a piano. Not once did to une, and to beat out time of it, h his finger-ends, on my leg.

    topped. Careful, nohey said.

    t doook  tle pus, t, I found I staggered and fell. I fell upon my . One of to take it.  from it. Please, I said.

    You may say please, noo teps. Look tle devil!

    S  to me. Noers, or Rivers? Does he?

    Please, I said again. I aint Mrs Rivers. S Mrs Rivers? , Mr Bates? And I aint Nurse Spiller, I dare say. And Mr  himself. Very likely.

    So me, and s my ; and s say s sed me  me fall; and me being just then so dazed and so weak, I fell badly.

    ts for cracking my face, s on stairs, or a roof. Crack me again—s oo. ts noto me.  small little ? Used to better, are you? I s Ive  keep ladies maids, es. till stood, c them over?

    I supposed s to strip me bare;  on to my kne