Excerpt from A Fearless Investigator When pronounced convalescent, I was allowed to sit an hour or two every morning in my sister Nanny's sewing-room while she busied herself in the nursery just beyond. This gave me a feeling of freedom; at the same time, Nanny could have heard me if Ihad made any attempt to escape. The doctor had made his final visit, leaving with the cheerful injunction Now fill him up I never had considered my sister, Mrs. Tom Davenport, a parsimonious person, but I firmly believe now that people cannot be truly liberal providers until they have had a fever. I wondered, as I looked at my thin hands and legs that suggested rake-handles in bags, if my sister had forgotten what the doctor had said. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.