I was quite cured of my infatuation, as you may imagine.

I didn't see Estelle again for six months, and by then the action of the drugs and the course of time caused us to meet simply as old acquaintances, and this only very seldom. But, by Jove! it was very much "touch and go."

The shock and consequent illness was, I fear, the real cause of Estelle's death some twelve months later.