The doctor did not know that she was despising him, and he proceeded to pay Tommy a compliment.

"I had to reduce the dislocation, of course," he told her, "and he bore the wrench splendidly, though there is almost no pain more acute." "Did he ask you to tell me that ?" Grizel was thirsting to inquire, but she forbore.

Unwittingly, however, the doctor answered the question.
"I could see," he said, "that Mr.Sandys made light of his sufferings to save his sister pain.

I cannot recall ever having seen a brother and sister so attached." That was quite true, Grizel admitted to herself.

In all her recollections of Tommy she could not remember one critical moment in which Elspeth had not been foremost in his thoughts.