So she lived out the rest of her days on earth as the eternal spinster Dr Granger, who frigidly rebuffed all of the few attempts men made to ask her out, yet whose patients recovered from life-threatening diseases as though through miracles. (Not quite miracles. But who’s asking?) She thinks her parents suspected. Oh, not that she was with a demon, of course: the senior Drs Granger were atheists. But that someone secret lay behind her continued refusal to meet other men.