"
"Leave her there, if you please, and wait outside within hearing
of the bell."
The legs of the furniture-footman acted, and took him noiselessly
out of the room. Julian turned to his aunt.
"Forgive me," he said, "for venturing to give the man his orders
in your presence. I am very anxious that you should not decide
hastily. Surely we ought to hear what this lady has to say?"
Horace dissented widely from his friend's opinion. "It's an
insult to Grace," he broke out, warmly, "to hear what she has to
say!"
Lady Janet nodded her head in high approval. "I think so, too,"
said her ladyship, crossing her handsome old hands resolutely on
her lap.
Julian applied himself to answering Horace first.
"Pardon me," he said. "I have no intention of presuming to
reflect on Miss Roseberry, or of bringing her into the matter at
all.--The consul's letter," he went on, speaking to his aunt,
"mentions, if you remember, that the medical authorities of
Mannheim were divided in opinion on their patient's case. Some of
them--the physician-in-chief being among the number--believe that
the recovery of her mind has not accompanied the recovery of her
body.
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