I am here to-night, though, to lay a charge upon you.

You have to remember that your wife needs still one step towards a perfect recovery, and until that step has been surmounted you have a very difficult but imperative task." Dominey set his teeth for a moment.

He felt the doctor's keen grey eyes glowing from under his shaggy eyebrows as he leaned forward, his hands upon his knees.
"You mean," Dominey suggested quietly, "that until that hallucination has passed we must remain upon the same terms as we have done since my arrival home." "You've got it," the doctor assented.

"It's a tangled-up position, but we've got to deal with it--or rather you have.

I can assure you," he went on, "that all her other delusions have gone.