She was not, I was told, in the hospital portion of the house with the fever patients; for her complaint was consumption, not typhus: and by consumption I, in my ignorance, understood something mild, which time and care would be sure to alleviate.
No estaba en la zona del edificio destinada a las demás pacientes, porque su enfermedad no era tifus, sino tuberculosis, dolencia que yo, en mi ignorancia, creía susceptible de curarse con tiempo y cuidados.