The Lonely Bride by Fred M. White

Fenton had evidently been drinking, but Cattley's words had a sobering effect upon him. He lost his bullying, threatening manner, and became all at once docile, not to say timid. He had been standing fairly close to Bessie whilst he had raved at her in his blustering way, but now he had staggered back as if his daughter were some loathsome object. The word typhoid had scared him horribly.

-"It is very strange," Cattley said, "that a man can be at once so brave and so intolerable a coward. You are frightened to death at the mere mention of a word."