You know what a mind she
has--a lawyer's mind! How can I persuade her that the nurses--why, I
do not even know what she heard the nurses say!"
"We have that all written down for you," put in Dr. Perrin, quickly.
"You have their recollection of it, no doubt--but suppose they have
forgotten some of it? Sylvia has not forgotten, you may be
sure--every word is burned with fire into her brain. She has put
with this everything she ever heard on the subject--the experience
of her friend, Harriet Atkinson-all that I've told her in the past
about such things----"
"Ah!" growled Dr. Gibson. "That's it! If you had not meddled in the
beginning----"
"Now, now!" said the other, soothingly. "You ask me to relieve you
of the embarrassment of this matter. I quite agree with Mrs. Abbott
that there is too much ignorance about these things, but she must
recognise, I am sure, that this is not the proper moment for
enlightening Mrs. van Tuiver."
"I do not recognise it at all," I said. "If her husband will go to
her and tell her humbly and truthfully----"
"You are talking madness!" cried the old man, breaking loose again.
"She would be hysterical--she would regard him as something
loathsome--some kind of criminal----"
"Of course she would be shocked," I said, "but she has the coolest
head of anyone I know--I do not think of any man I would trust so
fully to take a rational attitude in the end.
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