"Possibly not. But I suppose you are open to learn it?"
"If it can be taught me."
"Well, you go into the next room. Hubert is there, I believe, and will explain it to you better than I can. I never bothered my head about physics. When the conference is over come back to me."
Half an hour had elapsed--quite that--and the Squire was growing impatient, when Dr. Jago returned. He was looking, very grave.
"Will the treatment answer?" he cried out impatiently, before the Doctor could speak.
"It might answer, Mr. Denison; I do not say it would not. But--it is dangerous."
"And what if it is dangerous? I am willing to risk it--and I shall pay you well. What! you hesitate? Why, I have heard say that dangerous remedies are not unknown to you; that with you it is sometimes kill or cure."
"In a desperate case possibly. Not otherwise."
"And have you not just told me mine is desperate?"
"True."