Isn't it funny that you had to go right there?
Perhaps it's as well for you that Hugh is sick.

You will got a better impression.

_Au revoir_." Not a word was there in this letter of the doctor, but Alice understood it all the same.

He was the attraction which kept the selfish girl from her brother's side.

"May she be happy with him, if, indeed, he has a right to win her," was Alice's mental comment, shuddering as she recalled the time when she was pleased with the handsome doctor, and silently thanking God, who had saved her from much sorrow.