A doctor said that there was the usual chance for partial recovery.

But it was the last excitement he could ever venture to indulge in.

His own doctors had warned him often enough.

Now he had learned something, but not as much as Alixe had already learned.

And perhaps he never would; but no man knows such things with the authority to speak of them.
ARS AMORIS Nine days is the period of time allotted the human mind in which to wonder at anything.