To kill him for the purpose of removing Fritz from the influence of his father's authority would be so atrocious an act in itself, and would so certainly separate Minna and Fritz for ever, in the perfectly possible event of a discovery, that I really recoiled from the contemplation of this contingency as I might have recoiled from deliberately disgracing myself.

Doctor Dormann had rashly rushed at a false conclusion--that was the one comforting reflection that occurred to me.

I threw open my door again in a frenzy of impatience to hear the decision, whichever way it might turn.
The experiment had been tried in my absence.

Mr.Keller had fallen into a broken slumber.

Doctor Dormann was just closing the little bag in which he had brought his testing apparatus from his own house.