That it was the
conclusion, however, he could not honestly deny.
"As long as I am right," said Romayne, "nothing else appears to be
of much importance. As I told you at the time, the second physician
appeared to me to be the only one of the three authorities who really
understood my case. Do you mind giving me, in few words, your own
impression of what he said?"
"Are you sure that I shall not distress you?"
"On the contrary, you may help me to hope."
"As I remember it," said Lord Loring, "the doctor did not deny the
influence of the body over the mind. He was quite willing to admit that
the state of your nervous system might be one, among other predisposing
causes, which led you--I really hardly like to go on."
"Which led me," Romayne continued, finishing the sentence for his
friend, "to feel that I never shall forgive myself--accident or no
accident--for having taken that man's life. Now go on."
"The delusion that you still hear the voice," Lord Loring proceeded,
"is, in the doctor's opinion, the moral result of the morbid state of
your mind at the time when you really heard the voice on the scene of
the duel.
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