The last time everybody said that she wouldn't leave it alive.
The doctors had vainly tried every remedy, iodine, blistering, and cauterising.

In fact, hers was a real case of phthisis, certified by half a dozen medical men.

Well, she comes to Lourdes, and Heaven alone knows amidst what awful suffering--she was so bad, indeed, that at Toulouse they thought for a moment that she was about to die! The Sisters had to carry her in their arms, and on reaching the piscina the lady-hospitallers wouldn't bathe her.

She was dead, they said.

No matter! she was undressed at last, and plunged into the water, quite unconscious and covered with perspiration.