Read "Dangerous Ages" by Rose Macaulay online for free on Textopian. Full text with search, annotations, highlights, and AI-powered reading aids.
Through September Neville had nursed Gerda by day and worked by night. The middle of October, just when they usually moved into town for the winter, she collapsed, had what the doctor called a nervous breakdown.
"You've been overworking," he told her. "You're not strong enough in these days to stand hard brain-work. You must give it up."