Lady Glyde became frightened,
and turned faint. For the second time, and the last, I called Science
to my assistance. A medicated glass of water and a medicated bottle of
smelling-salts relieved her of all further embarrassment and alarm.
Additional applications later in the evening procured her the
inestimable blessing of a good night's rest. Madame Rubelle arrived in
time to preside at Lady Glyde's toilet. Her own clothes were taken
away from her at night, and Anne Catherick's were put on her in the
morning, with the strictest regard to propriety, by the matronly hands
of the good Rubelle. Throughout the day I kept our patient in a state
of partially-suspended consciousness, until the dexterous assistance of
my medical friends enabled me to procure the necessary order rather
earlier than I had ventured to hope. That evening (the evening of the
27th) Madame Rubelle and I took our revived "Anne Catherick" to the
Asylum. She was received with great surprise, but without suspicion,
thanks to the order and certificates, to Percival's letter, to the
likeness, to the clothes, and to the patient's own confused mental
condition at the time. I returned at once to assist Madame Fosco in
the preparations for the burial of the False "Lady Glyde," having the
clothes and luggage of the true "Lady Glyde" in my possession. They
were afterwards sent to Cumberland by the conveyance which was used for
the funeral. I attended the funeral, with becoming dignity, attired in
the deepest mourning.

My narrative of these remarkable events, written under equally
remarkable circumstances, closes here. The minor precautions which I
observed in communicating with Limmeridge House are already known, so
is the magnificent success of my enterprise, so are the solid pecuniary
results which followed it. I have to assert, with the whole force of
my conviction, that the one weak place in my scheme would never have
been found out if the one weak place in my heart had not been
discovered first. Nothing but my fatal admiration for Marian
restrained me from stepping in to my own rescue when she effected her
sister's escape. I ran the risk, and trusted in the complete
destruction of Lady Glyde's identity. If either Marian or Mr. Hartright
attempted to assert that identity, they would publicly expose
themselves to the imputation of sustaining a rank deception, they would
be distrusted and discredited accordingly, and they would therefore be
po