I wanted to talk more about the link between psychological illness and physical illness in Victorian times. We talked some about Mrs. Dedlock's long snowy walk to her death. We concluded that it was in fact the snow and could that killed her. We also concluded that because she was "mentally unstable" she stayed out in the cold and died. I went back to Ester's story of when her and Mr. Bucket were pursuing Lady Dedlock and found something interesting in the fragments of a letter they found written by Lady Dedlock. She says, "Cold, wet, and fatigue, are sufficient causes for my being found dead; but I shall die of others, though I suffer from these. It was right that all that had sustained me should give way at once, and that I should die of terror and my conscience" (Dickens, 698). It seems that Dickens is purposing a link between psychological illness and physical illness because she claims that she will "die of others" and lists her conscience as others. Dickens is suggesting that what she has done lies so heavily on her conscience that she can not live with it. Another good example of the Victorian link between psychological illness and physical illness is with Richard. In the beginning of the chapter he dies in Ester describes him as this, "Richard was extremely agitated, and was so weak and low, though his illness was still of the mind..."(Dickens, 741). It seems with the end of the Jarndyce and Jarndyce case Richards illness turns from mental to physical. Dickens leaves it up to the reader as to whether or not his mental illness was indeed part of his physical deterioration and lead to it as we discussed in class. It seems to me that the Victorians were not sure how to link the two illness together they just noticed a physical deterioration in people that were not mental stable. We know that the stress of being psychological unwell can lead to physical ailments like but without knowing how stress affected the body they were unable to figure out the link.