But I have more faith in your learning, Nance.

The doctor's solution seems plausible, since you've sided with him.

I suppose you could have no motive for deceiving me ?" She was regarding him with just a little anxiety, and this he detected.
"It's nothing to worry about, Nance--it's only funny.

I haven't lost my mind or anything, you know--spite of my tempered enthusiasm for your face--but this is it: first there came a fearful shock--something terrible, that shattered me--then it seemed as if that sickness found my brain like a school-boy's slate with all his little problems worked out on it, and wickedly gave it a swipe each side with a big wet sponge.

And now I seem to have forgotten all I ever learned.