"You was wrong about him, doc.

He thinks he can do without me." "What ?" cried Kate.
"He thinks he can do without me," said Dan Barry.

"We talked it all over." The silence fell again.

Kate Cumberland was staring blankly down at her plate, seeing nothing; and Doctor Byrne looked straight before him and felt the pulse drumming in his throat.

His chance, then, was to come.