Broad Arrow by Caroline Leakey — Read

DEAR no! Mrs. Evelyn cannot think of allowing Maida to be invalided in her house; the mere mention of so ridiculous an impossibility calls forth the habitual little short laugh.

'Fever, too! dear, dear! how very amusing George can be when he likes, or rather, when the girls put him up to such nonsense! Really, though, illness is too serious a matter to make fun of--it might come upon one of us at any time--George should know better.'