We all know--those of us, at all events, who keep up with the science of the day--that the mind is entirely dependent upon the body--entirely!" He looked round, daring his friends to contradict this.

"Mrs.Quarrier had overtaxed her strength, and it's just possible--I say its just possible--that her husband was not very prudent in sending her for necessary repose to the house of a woman so active-minded and so excitable as Mrs.Wade We must remember the peculiar state of her health.

As far as _I_ am concerned, Dr.Jenkins's evidence is final, and entirely satisfactory.

As for the dirty calumnies of dirty-minded reactionists, _I_ am not the man to give ear to them!" One man there was who might have been expected to credit such charges, yet surprised his acquaintances by what seemed an unwonted exercise of charity.

Mr.Scatchard Vialls, hitherto active in defamation of Quarrier, with amiable inconsistency refused to believe him guilty of conduct which had driven his wife to suicide.