Here it was that I was one morning surprised with a kind but melancholy letter from my gentleman, intimating that he was very ill, and was afraid he should have another fit of sickness, but that his wife's relations being in the house with him, it would not be practicable to have me with him, which, however, he expressed his great dissatisfaction in, and that he wished I could be allowed to tend and nurse him as I did before. I was very much concerned at this account, and was very impatient to know how it was with him.
C'est là que je fus surprise un matin par une lettre tendre, mais mélancolique, de mon monsieur; il m'écrivait qu'il se sentait fort indisposé et qu'il craignait d'avoir un nouvel accès de maladie, mais que, les parents de sa femme séjournant dans sa maison, il serait impraticable que je vinsse auprès de lui; il exprimait tout le mécontentement qu'il en éprouvait, ayant le désir qu'il me fût possible de le soigner et de le veiller comme autrefois.