"Mrs. Lovejoy, who advised it, only said, 'Use it as long as it appears to do good.'"
"Is it a favorite remedy with her?"
"Very much so."
"Has any one been really cured by it?"
"Oh, yes. Mr. Browning, the gardener, was entirely cured by it; so, at least, people say."
"Any one else?"
"Yes, half a hundred or more have tried it."
"But how many have been cured by it? That is my main inquiry."
"That I cannot tell you. I have heard of no positive cure but that of Mr. Browning."
"It is almost incredible, my dear sir, that any thing like fifty cases can have come within such a small range of population as the village or even the town in which Mrs. Lovejoy resides. Do you mean as you say?"