David Baker’: Opinion 
     
    
   
   
    
     keep me in suspense any longer, David. 
     
     I have endured all I can. To-day has 
     
     seemed like a thousand years. Have you 
     
     discovered what is the matter with Kil- 
     
     meny? ” 
     
    

    
     “ There is nothing the matter with 
     
     her,” answered David slowly, flinging 
     
     himself into a chair by the window. 
     
    

    
     “ What do you mean? ” 
     
    

    
     “ Just exactly what I say. Her vocal 
     
     organs are all perfect. As far as they are 
     
     concerned, there is absolutely no reason 
     
     why she should not speak.” 
     
    

    
     “ Then why can’t she speak”? Do you 
     
     think—do you think—” 
     
    

    
     “ I think that I cannot express my con- 
     
     clusion in any better words than Janet 
     
     Gordon used when she said that Kilmeny 
     
     cannot speak because her mother 
     
     wouldn’t. That is all there is to it. The 
     
     trouble is psychological, not physical. 
     
     Medical skill is helpless before it. There 
     
     are greater men than I in my profession; 
     
     but it is my honest belief, Eric, that if you 
     
    
   
   
    
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