"Although I would not have allowed her to have left the nursing home so suddenly had I known, there was nothing to keep her there.

Lady Dominey, except for one hallucination, is in perfect health, mentally and physically." "And this one hallucination ?" "That you are not her husband." Dominey was silent for a moment.

Then he laughed a little unnaturally.
"Can a person be perfectly sane," he asked, "and yet be subject to an hallucination which must make the whole of her surroundings seem unreal ?" "Lady Dominey is perfectly sane," the doctor answered bluntly, "and as for that hallucination, it is up to you to dispel it." "Perhaps you can give me some advice ?" Dominey suggested.
"I can, and I am going to be perfectly frank with you," the doctor replied.

"To begin with then, there are certain obvious changes in you which might well minister to Lady Dominey's hallucination.

For instance, you have been in England now some eight months, during which time you have reveled an entirely new personality.