I turned, with my finger on the patient's wrist, and looked into the face of the most thoroughly scared woman I have ever seen.

She made no attempt now to avoid the light, but looked me squarely in the face, and I noticed, half-unconsciously, that her eyes were brown and had a curious strained expression.
"Yes," I answered, "he is very ill.

He is in great danger." She still stared at me fixedly for some seconds.

And then a very odd thing occurred.

Suddenly she squinted--squinted horribly; not with the familiar convergent squint which burlesque artists imitate, but with external or divergent squint of extreme near sight or unequal vision.
The effect was quite startling.