It was what the young doctor did now.
But the situation was not quite the same.

She had been bubbling over with glee then; she was sobbing now.

David could not know that it was a sob of joy; he knew only that he had never seen her crying before, and that it was the letter in her hands that had brought tears at last to those once tranquil and steadfast eyes.
In an odd conversation which had once taken place in that room between the two doctors, Gemmell had said: "But the time may come without my knowing it." And McQueen's reply was: "I don't think so, for she is so open; but I'll tell you this, David, as a guide.

I never saw her eyes wet.

It is one of the touching things about her that she has the eyes of a man, to whom it is a shame to cry.