21/23 You must perceive that I have done this in honesty to you; and you yourself are too honest to repay me by taking advantage of this knowledge to make me unhappy." "Oh, very well, doctor. At any rate, you are a brick, I will say that. But I'll think of all this, I'll think of it; but it does startle me to find that poor Mary has a child living so near to me." "And now, Scatcherd, I will say good-bye. We part as friends, don't we ?" "Oh, but doctor, you ain't going to leave me so. What am I to do? |