The patient's general health might be benefited, and that was all.

As for the question of the marriage, he declared without hesitation that we must for the present dismiss all consideration of it from our minds.
Lucilla received the account of what passed at the visit of the doctors with a stubborn resignation which it distressed me to see.

"Remember what I told you when the first attack seized him," she said.

"Our summer-time is ended; our winter is come." Her manner, while she spoke, was the manner of a person who is waiting without hope--who feels deliberately that calamity is near.

She only roused herself when Oscar came in.