I have just been making a professional call." "Professional! I thought she was well." "Getting well, my dear Miss Rose; getting well, I am happy to say.

It is the duty of a conscientious physician to see after his patients until they are perfectly recovered." "I wonder if conscientious physicians find the duty more binding in the case of young and pretty patients than in that of old and ugly ones ?" "No," said Doctor Frank, impressively.

"To professional eyes, the suffering fellow-creature is a suffering fellow-creature, and nothing more.

Think better of us, my dear girl; think better of me." After dinner, in the drawing-room, Captain Danton, with Grace for a partner, the Doctor with Eeny, sat down to a game of cards.

Kate sat at the piano, singing a fly-away duet with Miss Howard.