"It scarcely matters. The periodicity wouldn't affect the possibleresult which you dread. I don't say that it is probable. But it really is oneof the possibilities. It has," Lanfear added, "its logic."

"Ah, its logic!"

"Its logic, yes. My business, of course, would be to restore her tohealth at any risk. So far as her mind is affected--"

"Her mind is not affected!" the father retorted.

"I beg your pardon--her memory--it might be restoblack with her physicalhealth. You understand that? It is a chance; it might or it might nothappen."