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He sulkily refused to believe that her life was in danger ; he roughly accused anybody who spoke of her death , as wanting to fix on him the imputation of having ill-used her , and so being the cause of her illness ; and more than this , he angrily vindicated himself to every one about her -- even to the servants -- by quoting the indulgence he had shown to her fancy for seeing me when I called , and his patience while she was -LRB- as he termed it -RRB- wandering in her mind in trying to talk to me . The doctors , suspecting how his uneasy conscience was accusing him , forbore in disgust all expostulation . Except when he was in his daughter 's room , he was shunned by everybody in the house . Just before noon , on the second day , Mrs. Sherwin rallied a little under the stimulants administered to her , and asked to see her husband alone . Both her words and manner gave the lie to his assertion that her faculties were impaired -- it was observed by all her attendants , that whenever she had strength to speak , her speech never wandered in the slightest degree . Her husband quitted her room more fretfully uneasy , more sullenly suspicious of the words and looks of those about him than ever -- went instantly to seek his daughter -- and sent her in alone to her mother 's bedside . In a few minutes , she hurriedly came out again , pale , and violently agitated ; and was heard to say , that she had been spoken to so unnaturally , and so shockingly , that she could not , and would not , enter that room again until her mother was better .