"Dr.Blundell," she said energetically, "you've told me all I wanted to know.

She sha'n't be unhappy if _I_ can help it." "You!" said the doctor, shrugging his shoulders rather rudely.

"I don't see what _you_ can do." Sarah reddened with lofty indignation.

"It would be very odd if you did," she said spitefully; "you're only a man, when all is said and done.

But if you'll only promise not to interfere, I'll manage it beautifully all by myself." "What will you do ?" said the doctor, inattentively; and his blindness to Sarah's charms and her powers made her almost pity such obtuseness.
"I will go and fetch Lady Mary, for one thing, and cheer her up." "Not a word to her!" he cried, starting up; "remember, I told you in confidence--though why I was such a fool--" "Am I likely to forget ?" said Sarah; "and you will see one day whether you were a fool to tell _me_." She said to herself, despairingly, that the stupidity of mankind was almost past praying for.