'Or I may never grow out of it, at all ?' They tried to turn the conversation.

I wouldn't have it.

I said, 'Tell me honestly, is that one of the possibilities, in my case ?' The Dimchurch doctor looked at the London doctor.

The London man said, 'If you will have it, it is one of the possibilities.' Just consider the prospect which his answer placed before me! Day after day, week after week, month after month, always in danger, go where I may, of falling down in a fit--is that a miserable position?
or is it not ?" How could I answer him?
What could I say?
He went on:-- "Add to that wretched state of things that I am engaged to be married.
The hardest disappointment which can fall on a man, falls on me.

The happiness of my life is within my reach--and I am forbidden to enjoy it.
It is not only my health that is broken up, my prospects in life are ruined as well.