"One night I had been awakened by her yells--(since the medical men had pronounced her mad, she had, of course, been shut up)--it was a fiery West Indian night; one of the description that frequently precede the hurricanes of those climates.
«Une nuit, je fus réveillé par les cris de Berthe Mason; depuis que les médecins l'avaient déclarée folle, elle était enfermée.