The man was of transparent honesty; it was this very quality which we had to dread.

He was of that courageous, fixed trueness to his undertaking, that if he should deem it his duty to guard a secret he would do it to the last.

The case before us was, at least, an unusual one; and it would, consequently, require more liberal recognition of bounds of the duty of secrecy than would hold under ordinary conditions.

To us, ignorance was helplessness.

If we could learn anything of the past we might at least form some idea of the conditions antecedent to the attack; and might, so, achieve some means of helping the patient to recovery.