All this you knew, and without a word to me, and if you speak the truth, all for the sake of your wretched stomach, you clap into Cobhurst a girl who will be engaged to Ralph Haverley in less than a month." The doctor moved impatiently in his chair.
"Nonsense, Miss Panney.

Cicely Drane will not harm your plans.

She is a sensible, industrious girl, who attends to her own business, and--" "Precisely," said Miss Panney; "and her own business will be to settle for life at Cobhurst.

She may not be courting young Haverley to-day, but she will begin to-morrow.

She will do it, and what is more, she would be a fool if she did not.