  During $\eta$ Car's spectroscopic event in mid-2003, the stellar wind's
bright H$\alpha$ and H$\beta$ emission lines temporarily had a distinctive
shape unlike that reported on any previous occasion, and particularly unlike
the 1997--98 event. Evidently the structure of the wind changed between 1997
and 2003. Combining this with other evidence, we suspect that the star may now
be passing through a rapid stage in its recovery from the Great Eruption seen
160 years ago. In any case the data indicate that successive spectroscopic
events differ, and the hydrogen line profiles are quantitative clues to the
abnormal structure of the wind during a spectroscopic event.
