The attack of fever which had seemed to begin lightly for Lord Walderhurst assumed proportions such as his medical man had not anticipated.

His annoyance at finding his duties interfered with fretted him greatly.

He was not, under the circumstances, a good patient, and, partly as a result of his state of mind, he began, in the course of a few weeks, to give his doctors rather serious cause for anxiety.

On the morning following Emily's confession to Dr.Warren she had received a letter from her husband's physician, notifying her of his new anxieties in connection with his patient.

His lordship required extreme care and absolute freedom from all excitement.