She lay bereft of animation for hours; and when life, look, and speech returned, her senses had deserted her, and she raved wildly and furiously.
'Doctors were called in--great men who rolled up to my door in easy carriages, with fine horses and gaudy servants.

They were at her bedside for weeks.

They had a great meeting and consulted together in low and solemn voices in another room.

One, the cleverest and most celebrated among them, took me aside, and bidding me prepare for the worst, told me--me, the madman!--that my wife was mad.

He stood close beside me at an open window, his eyes looking in my face, and his hand laid upon my arm.