"Very nearly."
"So much so that she could swallow without difficulty?"
"She swallowed very well."
"In fact you concluded that she would recover?"
"I thought that she had passed the crisis, but I did not deem her to be entirely out of danger."
"Did you, at any time during this illness, prescribe or administer opium in any form?"
"No, sir."
"Did you see any evidence of that drug exhibited by her condition, lethargic sleep, contracted pupils, or any other diagnostic symptom?"
"No, sir."
"Now, then, you left this girl in the afternoon, recovering from her attack of diphtheria and able to swallow, and you were hurriedly called back in the evening, and found her dying. Did not that surprise you?"