Besides Madame Fontaine and the doctor himself, Mr.Engelman and Minna were the other witnesses of the scene.

Mr.Engelman had his claim to be present as an old friend; and Minna was to be made useful, at her mother's suggestion, as a means of gently preparing Mr.Keller's mind for the revelation that was to come.

Under these circumstances, I can only describe what took place, by repeating the little narrative with which Minna favored me, after she had left the room.
"We arranged that I should wait downstairs," she said, "until I heard the bedroom bell ring--and then I myself was to take up Mr.Keller's dinner of lentils and cream, and put it on his table without saying a word." "Exactly like a servant!" I exclaimed.
Gentle sweet-tempered Minna answered my foolish interruption with her customary simplicity and good sense.
"Why not ?" she asked.

"Fritz's father may one day be my father; and I am happy to be of the smallest use to him, whenever he wants me.

Well, when I went in, I found him in his chair, with the light let into the room, and with plenty of pillows to support him.