Has he ever betrayed it in your presence ?" "I heard something of it," Mrs.Wagner answered, "from the superintendent at the madhouse in London." "Ah, indeed?
The superintendent merely repeated, I suppose, what Jack had told him ?" "Exactly.

I was careful not to excite him, by referring to it myself, when I took him under my charge.

At the same time, it is impossible to look at his hair and his complexion, without seeing that some serious accident must have befallen him." "Most unquestionably! He is the victim, poor creature--not of poison--but of his own foolish curiosity, in my husband's surgery, and you see the result.

Alas! I cannot give you the scientific reasons for it." "I shouldn't understand them, Madame Fontaine, if you could." "Ah, dear lady, you kindly say so, because you are unwilling to humiliate me.

Is there anything Jack may have said to you about me, which seems to require an explanation--if I can give it ?" She slipped in this question, concealing perfectly the anxiety that suggested it, so far as her voice and her eyes were concerned.