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Fire seemed to come out of the woman. Mr. Fawcett, on whom Mr. Rolfe had mainly relied, caught fire, and declared he would go down next day and look into the matter on the spot; and he kept his word. He came down; he saw Sir Charles and Suaby, and penetrated the case. Mr. Fawcett was a man with a strong head and a good heart, but rather an arrogant manner.
Suaby made Burdoch's keeper sign a paper to the effect that he had the baronet in charge, and relieved Suaby of all further responsibility. Then Sir Charles took an affectionate leave of Dr. Suaby, and made him promise to visit him at Huntercombe Hall. Then he got into the fly, and sat between two keepers, and the fly drove off. Sir Charles at that moment needed all his fortitude.
Sir Charles entered at once on what was next his heart, told Dr. Suaby he was in some anxiety, and asked him if he had observed anything in Lady Bassett. "Nothing new," said Dr. Suaby; "charming as ever." Then Sir Charles confided to Dr. Suaby, in terms of deep feeling and anxiety, what I have coldly told the reader. Dr. Suaby looked a little grave, and took time to think before he spoke.
Arrived at the door a fly and pair, with three keepers from an asylum kept by Burdoch, a layman, the very opposite of the benevolent Suaby. His was a place where the old system of restraint prevailed, secretly but largely: strait-waistcoats, muffles, hand-locks, etc. Here fleas and bugs destroyed the patients' rest; and to counteract the insects morphia was administered freely.
Suaby, detailing his system and inviting me to spend a week at his asylum. Come, come; Sir Charles is with a man who does not fear inspection; for at this date I was bitter against private asylums rather indiscriminately so, I fear. Stay! he visited me; I thought so.
A timid Christian would have sent some man to do the good work; but this was a lion-like one. So she mounted her horse, and taking only her groom with her, was at Bellevue in no time. She dismounted, and said she must speak to Dr. Suaby, sent in her card, and was received at once. "You have a gentleman here called Vandeleur?" The doctor looked disappointed, but bowed. "I wish to see him."
Suaby has given him a plot to cultivate, and he whispered in my ear, 'The reason I went to a fancy price was, I can kill two birds with one stone with you. You'll make a very good statee stuck up among my flowers; and you can hallo, and keep those plaguy sparrows off." "Oh, what creatures for my darling to live among!" cried Lady Bassett piteously. Mr.
But Rolfe and Sir Charles, who loved Suaby as he deserved, had provided against that; they had not let the doctor into their secret. He therefore said, with perfect truth, that he had no hand in the matter, and that Sir Charles, being bound upon his honor not to escape from Bellevue, would be in the asylum still if Mr.
Suaby too much. In a prison or an asylum each functionary is important in exact proportion to his nominal insignificance; and why? Because the greater his nominal unimportance the more he comes in actual contact with the patient. The theoretical scale runs thus: 1st. The presiding physician. 2d. The medical subordinates. 3d. The keepers and nurses. The practical scale runs thus: 1st.
The other guests were Sir Charles Bassett, Mr. Hyam a meek, sorrowful patient an Exquisite, and Miss Wieland. Dr. Suaby introduced him to everybody but the Exquisite. Mr. Rolfe said Sir Charles Bassett and he were correspondents. "So I hear. He tells you the secrets of the prison-house, eh?" "The humors of the place, you mean." "Yes, he has a good eye for character.
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