She'll be able to talk and laugh the way she used to.

Oh, doc, if you could of seen her as I've seen her in the old days----" "When the man was with her ?" cut in the doctor.
Buck Daniels caught his breath.
"Damn your eternal soul, doc!" he said softly.
And for a time neither of them spoke.

Whatever went on in the mind of Daniels, it was something that contorted his face.

As for Byrne, he was trying to match fact and possibility and he was finding a large gap between the two; for he tried to visualise the man whose presence had been food to old Joe Cumberland, and whose absence had taken the oil from the lamp so that the flame now flickered dimly, nearly out.

But he could build no such picture.