Eager for any discovery which might, by the barest possibility, place Teresa at her mercy, she silently submitted to Mr.Le Frank.

"I'll call to-morrow," he said--and slipped out of the room.
When Mr.Null was announced, Mrs.Gallilee pushed up the shade over the globe of the lamp.

Her medical attendant's face might be worth observing, under a clear light.
His timid look, his confused manner, when he made the conventional apologies, told her at once that Teresa had spoken, and that he knew what had happened.

Even he had never before been so soothing and so attentive.

But he forgot, or he was afraid, to consult appearances by asking what was the matter, before he felt the pulse, and took the temperature, and wrote his prescription.