Therefore you could not see.

The plastic exudation had done its evil work as the result of the iritis--that is to say, of the sufferings of the iris." "I begin to understand," said Mary Gage.

"That covers what seemed to happen." "It covers it precisely, for that is precisely what did happen.

It was not cataract.

I knew, or thought I knew, that it was not from retinal scars due to inflammation in the back of the eye.