I don’t like to look out of the windows even—there are so many of those creeping women

It does not do to trust people too much.

It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight

Then in the very bright spots she keeps still, and in the very shady spots she just takes hold of the bars and shakes them hard

it makes me dizzy

In the daytime it is tiresome and perplexing

asked me why I should frighten her so

He seems very queer sometimes

the woman

Really, dear, you are better!”

because he is so wise, and because he loves me so

the baby is well and happy

And I know John would think it absurd. But I must say what I feel and think in some way—it is such a relief

debased Romanesque” with delirium tremens

It is as good as gymnastics, I assure you

Weir Mitchell

I must not let her find me writing

Then the floor is scratched and gouged and splintered, the plaster itself is dug out here and there, and this great heavy bed, which is all we found in the room, looks as if it had been through the wars.

children have made here

I never saw so much expression in an inanimate thing before, and we all know how much expression they have!

So I try

It does weigh on me so not to do my duty in any way

I am glad my case is not serious

they suddenly commit suicide

Your exercise depends on your strength, my dear

and that makes me very tired

draught

I believe, something about the heirs and co-heirs

for there are hedges and walls and gates that lock, and lots of separate little houses for the gardeners and people

So I will let it alone and talk about the house

John says the very worst thing I can do is to think about my condition

my condition

having to be so sly about it,

am absolutely forbidden to “work” until I am well again

that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression

he does not believe I am sick!

but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind

He has no patience with faith, an intense horror of superstition, and he scoffs openly at any talk of things not to be felt and seen and put down in figures

marriage

Else, why should it be let so cheaply? And why have stood so long untenanted?

queer

but that would be asking too much of fate

ancestral halls