Something I might do, if I were free; I feel that! But there is no hope of freedom.

I shall fall into darker and darker depths of weakness and ruin, always conscious of what I am losing.

What will be the end ?" "What the end will be, under the present circumstances, is only too clear to me.

But it might easily be averted ?" "How?
Give me some practical advice, Waymark! Let us talk of the matter freely.

Tell me what you would do!" Waymark thought for a moment.
"Does there seem any chance of her health being permanently improved ?" he asked.
"I can't say.