'I mean to
inquire about her. I wish I could take her to Paris to the
Salpetriere, where Marini is treating such cases by transmitting
through magnetism the patient's seizure to a healthy subject.'
'Will she recover?'
'Without the Salpetriere treatment?'
'Will she recover?' I asked, maddened beyond endurance by all this
cold-blooded professional enthusiasm about a case which was simply a
case of life and death to Winnie and me.
'She may, unless the seizures become too frequent for the strength of
the constitution. In that event, of course, she would succumb. She is
entirely harmless, let me tell you.'
He told me that she was at the cottage, where some good soul was
seeing after her.
'I'll get up,' I said, trying to rise.
'Get up!' said the doctor, astonished; 'why do you want to get up?
You are not strong enough to sit in a chair yet.'
This was, alas! but too true, and my great object now was to conceal
my weakness; for I determined to get out as soon as my legs could
carry me, though I should drop down dead on the road.
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