I stayed with him about three hours at Wolverhampton. Before I left,
I went back to see the doctor again--a very nice man, by the way, and
clever. He told me that Henry ought never to play "The Bells" again,
even if he acted again, which he said ought not to be.
It was clever of the doctor to see what a terrible emotional strain
"The Bells" put upon Henry--how he never could play the part of
Matthias "on his head," as he could Louis XI., for example.
Every time he heard the sound of the bells, the throbbing of his heart
must have nearly killed him. He used always to turn quite white--there
was no trick about it. It was imagination acting physically on the body.
[Illustration: _From the collection of Miss Evelyn Smalley_