Then, when she was fairly installed, I wrote to London for the celebrated Dr.Finlaison, and I placed her under his care.

He gave me some little hope.
In the course of time, he said, with the best of attention, the most tender care and cheerful society, she would, he believed, recover so as to be once more able to take her place in the world; and the hour in which I heard that was, I do not hesitate to say, one of the very happiest of my life.
This part of my story has been, perhaps, commonplace.

There was coming for me a different phase.

If my reader thinks it too romantic, I can only say--it is true..