"If any change occurs, favorable or unfavorable, let us know.

If your presence in her room should excite or disturb her in any way, you must prudently abstain from going near her." The two physicians went away with but little hope in their hearts for the sick woman.

Whatever the exciting cause or causes might have been, the disease which had taken hold of her with unusual violence presented already so fatal a type that the issue was very doubtful..