self-well

Updated: May 6, 2025

She stops suddenly, remembering certain indications of quiet self-well which she thinks she has already detected in her niece. Her shrill voice wakes the echoes. "Let her die!" resounds faintly through the gilded rooms. At this moment the cathedral-clock strikes four. This is the first sound that has reached the marchesa from the outer world since she has entered these rooms.

Frances Elliot - The Italians