Why else should she be so careful to prevent you showing it to me?
At the same time she is determined to go on using it.

We cannot prevent her." "Can we do nothing ?" "When I see her I shall be better able to judge." "But she is going away." "Then we must wait.

If it is, as I suspect, a case of disordered nerves aggravated by improper treatment, the instinct is strongly for concealment.

Do you find, for instance, that Mrs.Coombe is not as frank in other matters as she used to be ?" A shamed blush crimsoned the girl's cheek, but the doctor's tone was compelling and she answered in a low voice: "Yes, I think so." "Don't look like that.

It is only a symptom of something rotten in the nervous system." "Isn't there such a thing as character ?" bluntly.
"As distinct from the nervous system?
Some say not.