A Rolling Stone by B. M. Croker

Undoubtedly it was hard on Wynyard that, at a time when his own love-affair was absorbing his soul and thoughts, he should be burthened with the anxieties of another -- in fact, with two others -- those of Tom Hogben and Dilly Topham.

For some weeks Tom had been unlike himself, silent, dispirited, and almost morose, giving his mother short answers or none; yet, undoubtedly, it _is_ galling to be accused of a bilious attack when it is your heart that is affected.