"HOW COULD YOU HURT YOUR GRIZEL SO!" To concentrate on Elspeth so that he might find out what was in her mind was, as we have seen, seldom necessary to Tommy; for he had learned her by heart long ago.

Yet a time was now come when he had to concentrate, and even then he was doubtful of the result.

So often he had put that mind of hers to rights that it was an open box to him, or had been until he conceived the odd notion that perhaps it contained a secret drawer.

This would have been resented by most brothers, but Tommy's chagrin was nothing compared to the exhilaration with which he perceived that he might be about to discover something new about woman.

He was like the digger whose hand is on the point of closing on a diamond--a certain holiness added.
What puzzled him was the state of affairs now existing between Elspeth and the doctor.