“Ge’ somebody.”
“I vill, Valter. Zey are at ze door now. But firs’ I sink ze needle iss besser for you.”
“I am very sorry, Mrs. Brand,” the doctor said. “He is dead. It is not from his injuries. They would have been painful — broken ribs, some deep cuts — but they were comparatively superficial. He died from a heart attack induced by shock. You have my deepest sympathy.”
“Thank you, Doctor. I did not know, although sometimes I suspected, that my husband’s heart was bad.”
