We are indeed in luck's way.

Only a miracle can save her life.

Cumberledge, we must proceed to perform the miracle." Sebastian loved such cases.

They formed his ideal.

He did not greatly admire the artificial prolongation of diseased and unwholesome lives, which could never be of much use to their owners or anyone else; but when a chance occurred for restoring to perfect health a valuable existence which might otherwise, be extinguished before its time, he positively revelled in his beneficent calling.