It was only when she was within this vast and grim abode of madness that she realized the horror of her situation.

It was only when she was received by the kind physician and read pity in his eyes, and saw his look of hopeless incredulity when she attempted to tell him that she was not insane; it was only when she passed through the ward to which she was consigned and saw the horrible creatures, the victims of a double calamity, whose dreadful faces she was hereafter to see daily, and was locked into the small, bare room that was to be her home, that all her fortitude forsook her.

She sank upon the bed, as soon as she was left alone--she had been searched by the matron--and tried to think.

But her brain was in a whirl.

She recalled Braham's speech, she recalled the testimony regarding her lunacy.