At times, however, she would talk, but always to the baby, as though it lay before her or she were nursing it.

Oh! Quatermain, it was pitiful, pitiful! "I did everything I could.

She was seen by three of the greatest brain-doctors in England, but none of them was able to help.

The only hope they gave was that the fit might pass off as suddenly as it had come.

They said too that a thorough change of scene would perhaps be beneficial, and suggested Egypt; that was in October.