With difficulty, and not until after the most earnest prayers, did she answer the agonised questions of Glyndon; at last she owned that at that hour, and that hour alone, wherever she was placed, however occupied, she distinctly beheld the apparition of an old hag, who, after thrice knocking at the door, entered the room, and hobbling up to her with a countenance distorted by hideous rage and menace, laid its icy fingers on her forehead: from that moment she declared that sense forsook her; and when she woke again, it was only to wait, in suspense that froze up her blood, the repetition of the ghastly visitation.
The physician who had been summoned before Glyndon's return, and whose letter had recalled him to London, was a commonplace practitioner, ignorant of the case, and honestly anxious that one more experienced should be employed.

Clarence called in one of the most eminent of the faculty, and to him he recited the optical delusion of his sister.

The physician listened attentively, and seemed sanguine in his hopes of cure.

He came to the house two hours before the one so dreaded by the patient.

He had quietly arranged that the clocks should be put forward half an hour, unknown to Adela, and even to her brother.