With All My Worldly Goods
“She never took her eyes off his face, and her own cheeks were deathly pale.At last she found her voice, though it was not very much like her own voice when it came.“Dr. Brindbent, are you suggesting—”The doctor immediately put up his hand and stopped her.“I am not suggesting anything at all, Mrs. Mickleham. It would be exceedingly improper of me to do so with my partial knowledge of the situation. All I am doing is to give you the medical interpretation of the symptoms you have described.”“But—...what you said just now—about this—this poison being known only in Central America—” Leonora found it impossible to go on.The doctor shrugged deprecatingly.“There again I am merely stating something as seen through my own experience.”“You mean you might be wrong?” Leonora snatched at that, but she saw it was not an explanation which appealed to the doctor.“Nobody but a fool insists that a mistake is impossible in anything,” he said. “But, so far as it is humanly possible, to be so, I am certain that you—”“Yes, yes.MoreLess
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