These people have no existence out of your sick fancy.

You have been, very ill, delirious, for a long time.

I thank God that your reason has been restored to you; yes, I thank God with all my heart for that." "Have I been mad ?" the other asked.
"Your mind has wandered.

But that has passed at last with the fever, as the doctors hoped it might.

You are calm now, and must try to keep yourself quiet; there must be no more talk between us to-night." The sick man took no notice of this injunction; but for the time was not disobedient, and lay for some minutes staring at the watcher's face with a strange half-vacant smile upon his own.
"Gilbert," he said at last, "what have they done with my wife?
Why has she been kept away from me ?" "Your wife?
Marian ?" "Yes Marian.