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Updated: June 20, 2025
"Yes, but still you know, I have my doubts about the gentleman who invented this. We don't see eye to eye in this matter. Beatrice, you may be right perhaps I haven't got hay-fever." "Oh, don't give up." "But all the same I know I've got something. It's a funny thing about my being worse in town than in the country.
The subsequent meal was taken in silence. The hay-fever from which I am prone to suffer at all seasons of the year was particularly persistent that evening. A rising irritability, engendered by leathery eggs and fostered by Henry's expression, was taking possession of me. Quite suddenly I discovered that the way he held his knife annoyed me. Further, his manner of eating soup maddened me.
That might mean something quite insignificant hay-fever or neuralgia, or a nervous headache." "But he tells me to go home he who hates me, and was so glad to get me out of the house." "It is your mother who summons you home, no doubt. She is mistress in her own house, of course." "You would not say that if you knew Captain Winstanley."
Some say she died of hay-fever; others say it was nasal catarrh; but only her old mother, with a woman's unerring instinct, guessed the truth: in reality she died of a broken heart and a burnt scone.
I take it that there are grades of hay-fever, as there are of everything else. I have it at present in a mild form. Instead of being thankful that it is no worse, you " "My dear boy, hay-fever is a thing people have all their lives, and it comes on every summer. You've never even pretended to have it before this year." "Yes, but you must start SOME time. I'm a little backward, perhaps.
My hay-fever was obviously annoying him, but he only commented: 'Don't you think you ought to go to a doctor a really reliable man with that distressing nasal complaint of yours, my dear? I knew, however, that he was longing to bark out: 'Can't you do something to stop that everlasting sniffing? It's driving me mad, woman. How long would it be before we reached this stage of debacle? I brooded.
Webster's health became seriously impaired. His exertions in advocating the compromise measures, his official labors, and the increased severity of his annual hay-fever, all contributed to debilitate him.
And after the hay-fever days were over he kept using it, furtively now, not only for the exaltation it brought, but as protection from the hellish depression it wrought. For years Waring's office assistant had been an efficient, devoted, weak woman who had managed well much of the office detail.
"What does it matter," she would ask, with a hateful glance into the glass, "when at best, I look like a water-nymph with hay-fever?"... A long and hard fight, but she had almost broken the habit of thinking what she might do with certain prerogatives of women, which were not granted to her. A bitter fight, and only she knew the hollowness of the honors her good work had brought.
But we did, and the wind played havoc with our fire, and half the country blew in, as he had said, and with it came Cecil, his head bent low, his arms full of rugs and dust-cloaks. "You angel!" I cried, "have you been shaking those things?" "He's given himself the hay-fever," said Tom, heartlessly watching him while he sneezed and sneezed, and wept dust into his handkerchief.
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