I could see by her own grave face that she had already formed her own conclusions.
"He cannot recover," I answered.

"His constitution, shattered by the plague and by his incessant exertions, has received too severe a shock in this shipwreck.

He is doomed." "So I think.

The change is but temporary.

He will not last out three days more, I fancy." "He has rallied wonderfully to-day," I said; "but 'tis a passing rally; a flicker--no more.