‘Since when—’ the doctor began.
‘No,’ I heard him saying. ‘You have been quite mistaken. But I am not surprised. Such mistakes are frequently made—a kind of auto-suggestion.’
‘Mistaken!’ I murmured.
I could not prevent the room running round me as I reclined on the sofa; and I fainted.
But in the night, safely in my room again at the hotel, I wondered whether that secret fear, now exorcised, had not also been a hope. I wondered....