Shiver and Shake

By the time I got home from work yesterday Robbie had managed to get up and have a bath but he was curled up under a a blanket on the sofa shivering. The room was far too hot, but he was cold and very pale, he hadn't eaten anything all day and the word coffee made him turn green. He insisted that he would be well by the morning because he had an important meeting, but I had my doubts. He got up at 5am but he felt dizzy and sick and he still had a temperature. It would have been madness for him to go and eventually he gave up and went back to bed (after arranging for someone else to attend the meeting).