In the morning Doctor Torello took his leave.

'I can be of no further use,' he said to me.

'The man is past all help--and he ought to know it.' '"Later in the day I warned my lord, as gently as I could, that his time had come.

I am informed that there are serious reasons for my stating what passed between us on this occasion, in detail, and without any reserve.

I comply with the request.
'"Lord Montbarry received the intelligence of his approaching death with becoming composure, but with a certain doubt.