The doctor had said nothing to contradict the heroic picture, but he had said nothing to contribute to it.

And surely, if Farron had stood out in his calmness and courage above all other men, the doctor would have mentioned it, couldn't have helped doing so; he certainly would not have spent so much time in telling her how she was to guard and encourage him.

To the doctor he was only a patient, a pitiful human being, a victim of mortality.

Was that what he was going to become in her eyes, too?
At four she drove down-town to his office.

He came out with another man; they stood a moment on the steps talking and smiling.