MOOD

Sick, tragic, serene

"After her father's death, she went out very little; after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at all."

“She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in a heavy walnut bed with a curtain, her gray head propped on a pillow yellow and moldy with age and lack of sunlight.”

“So the next day we all said, "She will kill herself"; and we said it would be the best thing”