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Then she discerned from their manner a doubt as to her husband 's fate . `` Oh , papa , if you think anything , tell me what you think , '' she said late on the evening of the second day . He was then nearly sure that the man who had been killed at Tenway was Ferdinand Lopez ; -- but he was not quite sure , and he would not tell her . But on the following morning , somewhat before noon , having himself gone out early to Euston Square , he came back to his own house , -- and then he told her all . For the first hour she did not shed a tear or lose her consciousness of the horror of the thing ; -- but sat still and silent , gazing at nothing , casting back her mind over the history of her life , and the misery which she had brought on all who belonged to her . Then at last she gave way , fell into tears , hysteric sobbings , convulsions so violent as for a time to take the appearance of epileptic fits , and was at last exhausted and , happily for herself , unconscious . After that she was ill for many weeks , -- so ill that at times both her father and her brother thought that she would die .