With what increased benignity I listened to the patients who visited me the next morning! The whole human race seemed to be worthier of love, and I longed to diffuse amongst all some rays of the glorious hope that had dawned upon my heart.

My first call, when I went forth, was on the poor young woman from whom I had been returning the day before, when an impulse, which seemed like a fate, had lured me into the grounds where I had first seen Lilian.

I felt grateful to this poor patient; without her Lilian herself might be yet unknown to rue.
The girl's brother, a young man employed in the police, and whose pay supported a widowed mother and the suffering sister, received me at the threshold of the cottage.
"Oh, sir, she is so much better to-day; almost free from pain.

Will she live now; can she live ?" "If my treatment has really done the good you say; if she be really better under it, I think her recovery may be pronounced.

But I must first see her." The girl was indeed wonderfully better.