He watched her like a mother, but seeing no one about her who was worthy of inspiring love, his uneasiness on the subject at length passed away.
At this conjuncture, one month before the day when this drama begins, the doctor's intellectual life was invaded by one of those events which plough to the very depths of a man's convictions and turn them over.

But this event needs a succinct narrative of certain circumstances in his medical career, which will give, perhaps, fresh interest to the story..