"This is no place for you, for there are a few fellows still lurking among the trees, and they send a shot over the house occasionally." "I came up to say that I am sorry, Doctor." "That is right, Isobel.

Always say you are sorry when you are so, although in nine cases out of ten, and this is one of them, the saying so is too late to do much good." "I think you are rather hard upon me, Doctor.

I know you were speaking at me today when you were talking to the others, especially in what you said at the end." "Perhaps I was; but I think you quite deserved it." "Yes, I know I did; but it was hard to tell me it was as contemptible to despise a man for a physical weakness he could not help, as to despise one for being born humpbacked or a cripple, when you know that my brother was so." "I wanted you to feel that your conduct had been contemptible, Isobel, and I put it in the way that was most likely to come home to you.

I have been disappointed in you.

I thought you were more sensible than the run of young women, and I found out that you were not.