noon
The fever of her anxiety , the shock of her disappointment , the tumult of her hopes and fears , all made themselves felt in her overworked brain . She did not take the five o'clock train on the following day . The maid came to call her , but found her in a high fever , eager to start , but quite unable to move . Before noon she was delirious . In that delirium her thoughts wandered over those scenes which for the past few months had been uppermost in her mind . Now she was shut up in her chamber at Chetwynde Castle reading the Indian papers ; she heard the roll of carriage wheels ; she prepared to meet the new-comer face to face . She followed him to the morning-room , and there listened to his fierce maledictions .