I was just in time to catch the special mail which left this morning.

Don't blame me, David.

I could not feel absolutely sure of the new medicine; and, with time of such terrible importance, and London so far off, I was really afraid to miss a post." I was far from blaming him--and I said so.

In his place I should have done what he did.

We arranged that I should write to Fritz by that night's mail, on the chance that my announcement of the better news might reach him before he left London.
"My letter despatched," Mr.Engelman continued, "I begged both the doctors to speak with me before they went away, in my private room.