Have you been thinking lately of that patient we lost ?" Not at the moment remembering the patient, Ovid made no immediate reply.
The doctor seemed to distrust his silence.
"You don't mean to say you have forgotten the case ?" he resumed.

"We called it hysteria, not knowing what else it was.

I don't forgive the girl for slipping through our fingers; I hate to be beaten by Death, in that way.

Have you made up your mind what to do, on the next occasion?
Perhaps you think you could have saved her life if you had been sent for, now ?" "No, indeed, I am just as ignorant--" "Give ignorance time," Benjulia interposed, "and ignorance will become knowledge--if a man is in earnest.

The proper treatment might occur to you to-morrow." He held to his idea with such obstinacy that Ovid set him right, rather impatiently.