Margaret's strength was so utterly exhausted by these visits, that she had to submit to much watching and petting, and sighing "I-told-you-so's," from her aunt. Dixon said she was quite as bad as she had been on the first day she heard of her father's death; and she and Mrs. Shaw consulted as to the desirableness of delaying the morrow's journey. But when her aunt reluctantly proposed a few days' delay to Margaret, the latter writhed her body as if in acute suffering, and said:

Margaret's strength was so utterly exhausted by these visits, that she had to submit to 'I-told-you-so's,' from her aunt. But when her aunt reluctantly proposed a few days' delay in their journey, Margaret said, agonised:
