CHAPTER XX.
THE STRAIGHT TRUTH "Ah, my worthy physician, enter, enter!" was Mr.Lorimer's bland greeting.

"What news of the patient ?" Tudor tramped up to the hearth, looking very square and resolute.

"I've come from the schoolroom," he said, "where I went to take a look at Jeanie.

But I found Gracie required more of my attention than she did.
Are you absolutely mad, I wonder, to inflict corporal punishment upon a highly-strung child like that?
Let me tell you this! You'll turn her into a senseless idiot if you persist! The child is nearly crazed with terror as it is.

I've told them to put her to bed, and I'm going up to give her a soothing draught directly." Mr.Lorimer rose with dignity.