A Widower's Wooing.
Dora Russell · 2024
Hilda stayed many days with Isabel after this. Stayed, and tried to soothe her when she raved and tossed, and finally, when fever crept into her frame, and she lay stricken down and powerless. She was very, very ill. It was low fever at first, the doctors said, and then typhus. 132 When this word began to be whispered about, the proprietor of the private hotel where she was staying went to Hilda, and requested that Lady Hamilton should be removed. It seemed a hard thing to ask, the man said, but then everyone must attend to his own interest.