But there was no recovery of power or movement on that side of the body which had been stricken.

The paralysed limbs were still motionless, lifeless as marble; and it was clear that Mr.Horton had begun to lose heart about his patient.

There was nothing obscure in the case, but the patient's importance made the treatment a serious matter, and the surgeon begged to be allowed to summon Sir William Jenner.
This, however, Lady Maulevrier refused.
'I don't want any fuss made about me,' she said.

'I am content to trust myself to your skill, and I beg that no other doctor may be summoned.' Mr.Horton understood his patient's feelings on this point.

She had a sense of humiliation in her helplessness, and, like some wounded animal that crawls to its covert to die, she would fain have hidden her misery from the eye of strangers.