The rest of us will do better to keep out of it--especially me!" "That's sensible," she responded, curtly.

"You're most surprising of all when you're sensible, Bibbs." "Yes," he sighed.

"I'm a dull dog.

Shake hands and forgive me, Edith." Thawing so far as to smile, she underwent this brief ceremony, and George appeared, summoning Bibbs to the library; Dr.Gurney was waiting there, he announced.

And Bibbs gave his sister a shy but friendly touch upon the shoulder as a complement to the handshaking, and left her.
Dr.Gurney was sitting by the log fire, alone in the room, and he merely glanced over his shoulder when his patient came in.