Still I have feared that she may have a tendency to consumption.

Do you think so?
Your questions alarm me!" "I do not think so; but before I pronounce a positive opinion, one question more.

You say you have feared a tendency to consumption.

Is that disease in her family?
She certainly did not inherit it from you.
But on her father's side ?" "Her father," said Mrs.Ashleigh, with tears in her eyes, "died young, but of brain fever, which the medical men said was brought on by over study." "Enough, my dear madam.

What you say confirms my belief that your daughter's constitution is the very opposite to that in which the seeds of consumption lurk.