"Speak! do not keep me in suspense.

Your silence fills me with apprehension.

Speak, I implore you.

He is dead ?" "No," replied Leonard, "he is not dead--but he is an inmate of this place." "Ah!" exclaimed Nizza, falling back senseless upon the pillow.
And in this state she was conveyed with the greatest expedition to the doctor's residence.
Leonard only tarried to visit the piper, whom he found slightly delirious, and unable to hold any conversation with him, and promising to return in the evening, he set out after the litter.

Nizza was placed in the best apartment of the doctor's house, and attended by an experienced and trustworthy nurse.