I warn you, Sir Everard, that you may find your position an exceedingly difficult one, but, difficult though it may be, there is a plain duty before you.
Keep and encourage your wife's affection if you can, but let it be a charge upon you that whilst the hallucination remains that affection must never pass certain bounds.

Lady Dominey is a good and sweet woman.
If she woke up one morning with that hallucination still in her mind, and any sense of guilt on her conscience, all our labours for these last months might well be wasted, and she herself might very possibly end her days in a madhouse." "Doctor," Dominey said firmly.

"I appreciate every word you say.

You can rely upon me." The doctor looked at him.
"I believe I can," he admitted, with a sigh of relief.

"I am glad of it." "There is just one more phase of the position," Dominey went on, after a pause.