No one will think of connecting the surname with the title." "You are quite right," agreed the doctor.
"Another thing I wish to add is that I want you to spare no expense--send for the best nurse, the best help it is possible to get.
Remember that I am a rich man, and that I would give my whole fortune, my life itself a thousand times over, to save or to serve my wife." Then came a summons for the doctor from the room above, and Lord Charlewood was once more left alone.

He was a young man, and was certainly both a good and honorable one.

He had never deliberately done anything wicked--on the contrary he had tried always to do what was best; yet, as he stood there, a strange sense of something wanting came over him.

The young wife he loved with such passionate worship was in the hour of need, and he could render no assistance.
Later on a strange hush had fallen over the doctor's house.

It was past 1 in the morning; the sky was overcast; the wind was moaning fitfully, as though a storm was brewing in the autumn air.