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thancks herself cure.
PRIEST:
Indeed!
BERNH:
And it is almost to be feared that your appearance,
Your Reverence
PRIEST:
have no fear for your patient, Professor. It is not my
mission to pronounce a death sentence.
BERNH:
Naturally, but all the same
PRIEST:
Perhaps the patient might be prepared,
(SISTER ; unnoticed by BERNHARDI, goes into the
ward, in response to a hardly noticeable flicker
of the eyelids on the PRIEST'S part.)
BERNH:
That wouldn’t mend matters. As I already kremarked, your
Reverence, the patient is absolutely unconscious of the
nearness of the end. She expect anything rather than
this visit. On the contrary, she is under the happy
lllusion that, within the next hour, someone dear to her
will appear toulch her away and take her back to life
and happiness. I think, your Revenue, it would
be no good, I might even say no God-given, deed, to
waken her from this last dream
PRIEST:
(After a s[l]ight bestitation, more firmly) Is there any
possursity, Professor, that my appearance might have
a bad effect on the course of the illness -