She did not go so far as to call it jealousy, but certainly it was a grave and serious consideration that measured the doctor up and down and back again; and it left her free to examine the two men in contrast.

For the first time it struck her that they were much alike in many ways.

Physically, for instance, there was the same slenderness, the same delicacy with which the details were finished; the same fragile hands, for instance.

The distinction lay in a suggestion of strength and inexhaustible reserve of energy which Dan Barry possessed.

The distinction lay still more in their faces.