Charlotte’s face drained of all color upon hearing this. Mrs. Berry had also turned pale with fright. “That can’t be. Doesn’t that mean that Miss would…”

“Don’t fret.” Dr. Felch reassured, “I only said maybe. According to my experience, there should be hope still, but we must be patient.”

“That’s good to know.” Mrs. Berry’s voice sounded choked when she spoke. “Dr. Felch, Mr. Windt is no longer with us and Miss is his only surviving child. You must cure her for his sake.”

“I will do my best.” Dr. Felch nodded. “You need to be in a good frame of mind when you receive treatment. Relax and don’t think too much.”

“You’re right, Dr. Felch.” Charlotte was unusually calm. “Mrs. Berry, let’s go outside. We shouldn’t disturb Dr. Felch.”

Mrs. Berry nodded.

 

“Wait.” Dr. Felch handed Mrs. Berry a few pouches of herbal medicine. “Her poison can’t be neutralized yet, but your illness can be treated. Drink one of these every day for ten to fourteen days. It will greatly improve your health.”

“Sure, sure. Thank you so much, Dr. Felch.”

 

Mrs. Berry took the medicine from him, pleasantly surprised that she herself had benefited from this trip.

“I’ll take you to brew the medicine.”

and

sense of relief flooded Charlotte. If her poison couldn’t be neutralized, at least Mrs. Berry should receive treatment for her illness, so that this trip wouldn’t

the medicine for Mrs. Berry,

out and they sat around the

ate quite a lot, but her head started to hurt as blood trickled out of

was the poison at work, she covered

Mrs. Berry

he watched her retreating figure. He took a bottle of medicinal concoction and passed it to

the bathroom, Charlotte was still struggling through the agonizing pain. After

panicked and quickly called Dr.

said, “Let her sleep for now. Letting her continue enduring the pain won’t help in finding the

This medicine wasn’t to alleviate the pain, but to

change her clothes, then supported her to lie down

to guard her. Seeing how weak Charlotte

dessert to her, but she

additional examinations on Charlotte, nor

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