You have as yet been brought in contact only with the members of my family, but you must not suppose that I have kept your secret.

On the contrary, your case, even before your resuscitation, and vastly more since has excited the profoundest interest in the nation.

In view of your precarious nervous condition, it was thought best that I should take exclusive charge of you at first, and that you should, through me and my family, receive some general idea of the sort of world you had come back to before you began to make the acquaintance generally of its inhabitants.

As to finding a function for you in society, there was no hesitation as to what that would be.

Few of us have it in our power to confer so great a service on the nation as you will be able to when you leave my roof, which, however, you must not think of doing for a good time yet." "What can I possibly do ?" I asked.