Do you mind giving me, in few words, your own impression of what he said ?" "Are you sure that I shall not distress you ?" "On the contrary, you may help me to hope." "As I remember it," said Lord Loring, "the doctor did not deny the influence of the body over the mind.

He was quite willing to admit that the state of your nervous system might be one, among other predisposing causes, which led you--I really hardly like to go on." "Which led me," Romayne continued, finishing the sentence for his friend, "to feel that I never shall forgive myself--accident or no accident--for having taken that man's life.

Now go on." "The delusion that you still hear the voice," Lord Loring proceeded, "is, in the doctor's opinion, the moral result of the morbid state of your mind at the time when you really heard the voice on the scene of the duel.

The influence acts physically, of course, by means of certain nerves.

But it is essentially a moral influence; and its power over you is greatly maintained by the self-accusing view of the circumstances which you persist in taking.