9/19 We haven't seen a doctor for five-and-twenty years." "Then isn't it almost time that you should see one now ?" said he, cheerfully taking his leave. "I shall look round again in the morning." He looked round again in the morning and sat half an hour with Miss Quincey; so she had time to take a good look at him. He was so clean-cut and tall and muscular; he had such an intellectual forehead; his mouth was so firm, you could trust it to tell no secrets; and his eyes (they were dark and deep set) looked as if they saw nothing but Miss Quincey. Indeed, at the moment he had forgotten all about Rhoda Vivian, and did see nothing but the little figure in the bed looking more like a rather worn and wizened child than a middle-aged woman. He was very gentle and sympathetic; but for that his youth would have been terrible to her. |