He had to remember how base a traitor this man had been to him.
"Yes, John, it is I." "And you have been here for a long time.

O God, how many months have I been lying here?
The time seems endless; and there have been so many people round me--a crowd of strange faces--all enemies, all against me.
And people in the next room--that was the worst of all.

I have never seen them, but I have always known that they were there.

They could not deceive me as to that--hiding behind that door, and watching me as I lay here.

You might have turned them out, Gilbert," he added peevishly; "it seems a hard thing that you could let them stay there to torment me." "There has been no one in either of the rooms, John; no one but myself and the hired nurse, the doctors, and Mrs.Pratt now and then.