"And he's even made friends--and that's much more wonderful--with the cat.

He went straight up to her and smelt her, and she seemed to be quite pleased with the attention." She turned to Dr.Panton: "I'll go out presently and see how he's getting on," she added.
He looked at her gratefully.

She really was a nice girl! He had thought that she would be one of those disagreeable, forward, self-sufficing, modern young women, who are absorbed only in themselves, and in the effect they produce on other people.

But Miss Bubbles was not in the least like that.
Helen Brabazon whispered, smiling: "Isn't Bubbles Dunster a dear, Dr.
Panton?
She's not like anyone I ever met before--and that makes her all the nicer, doesn't it ?".