“As you know, I have always admired Lister tremendously,” the Professor said with satisfaction, “and I am certain that in the future he will be acclaimed as the great man he undoubtedly is.”
“And you will be one of the people who will be able to testify to his success in preventing sepsis,” Larentia said and knew that her father was delighted at the idea.
When she was dressed and looked at herself in the mirror, she did not see for the moment her own reflection, but instead her father’s face pale with pain, trying not to let her know the agony he was experiencing.
‘I should be with him,’ she thought.
She told herself that somehow by the end of the evening she had to persuade the Duke to give her the money and let her go back to London.
Because she was thinking only of her father, she
