As the weeks went by he could not sanely be hopeful.
Dowie's brave face seemed to have lost some of its colour at times.

She asked eager questions but his answers did not teach her any new thing.
Yet he was of a modern school.
"There was a time, Mrs.Dowson," he said, "when a doctor believed--or thought he believed--that healing was carried in bottles.

For thinking men that time has passed.

I know very little more of such a case as this than you know yourself.

You are practical and kind and watchful.