The Doctor's Wife Chapter 30

In which the diligent Dr. George Gilbert, weakened by a severe fever contracted amidst his devoted care for the poor, resolutely refuses to yield to rest and medical counsel despite the mounting danger to his health, much to the distress of his gentle and repentant wife Isabel. As Isabel tends him with newfound tenderness through long, anxious days, she contemplates the trials of love, duty, and redemption with a wistful and troubled heart under the sombre shadow cast by his illness.