It was queer Mary V did not like her, but then-- "I know I've been a darned nuisance," he apologized so meekly that he did not sound in the least like Johnny Jewel.

"But I'm getting well fast.
I'll be able to beat it in a few days now." "Why, for gracious sake?
Haven't we--er--made you _comfortable_ ?" "Sure, you have.

Only you shouldn't have put yourselves out, this way.
I ought to have gone to a hospital or some place." Johnny looked so distressed that Mary V could have cried.

Only she was afraid that would distress him still more, and the doctor had said he must not be worried about anything.
"It wasn't any trouble.

You are being absolutely silly, so I guess you are getting well, all right.