Is that your opinion also ?" The question found Katherine unprepared; she winced, then hesitated, not knowing what to say.

He saw the trouble in her eyes, and paused with the pencil held between two fingers.

"I am not asking from any desire to know the nature of the worry, if there was one; that would be quite immaterial in its effect on the issues.

The thing that counts is to know if he were suffering from acute mental torture.

If this be so, then it probably accounts for the seizure, and leaves him with a fair hope of recovery to a limited extent.