Late, when the candle had burnt low, there came a soft rap at his door.

The doctor stood there with a candlestick and a shrug.
"He must amuse himself, still!" said Valentin's medical adviser.

"He insists upon seeing you, and I am afraid you must come.

I think at this rate, that he will hardly outlast the night." Newman went back to Valentin's room, which he found lighted by a taper on the hearth.

Valentin begged him to light a candle.