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It was the most interesting case I have ever had (wrote M. Chatelard, in the third volume of his "Psychologie Feminine"), and the most abnormal. The illness, caused by shock, concussion -- call it what you will -- was benign, yet it was long. There was a little fever, a little delirium: un petit delire tres doux, tout poetique, que, plonge dans mon vieux fauteuil de chene, au milieu du silence de cet antique manoir, j'ecoutais presqu'avec plaisir. Un gazouillement d'oiseau; une ame de femme, errant comme Psyche elle-meme, sur les fleurs dans les jardins embaumes; delicates puerilities parfumees de la vie. Jamais une note de passion. Jamais un cri de ce coeur si profondement blesse.
And when later, by almost imperceptible steps, we drew the gentle creature back to health, the singular phenomenon persisted.