Two hours after daylight the doctor and the cure of St.
Henri appeared together.
"It was impossible for me to come sooner," the cure explained, "but I am here at last, and I picked up the doctor in the village." They sat at the bedside and talked in low tones.

The doctor made a fresh examination, but it was the cure who told the result of it.

"There is little one can say.

She does not seem any worse, but this is not an ordinary sickness.

It is best that I should confess her and give her absolution; then we shall both go away and be back again the day after to-morrow." He returned to the bed, and the others went over and sat by the window.