He did not seem surprised at her ladyship's condition, and accepted the situation with professional calmness.
'A marked case of hemiplegia,' he said, when he had observed the symptoms.
'Will she die ?' asked Mary.
'Oh, dear, no! She will want great care for a little while, but we shall bring her round easily.

A splendid constitution, a noble frame; but I think she has overworked her brain a little, reading Huxley and Darwin, and the German physiologists upon whom Huxley and Darwin have built themselves.

Metaphysics too.

Schopenhauer, and the rest of them.

A wonderful woman! Very few brains could hold what hers has had poured into it in the last thirty years.