No doubt you were relieved to be rid of Johnson, capable though he was, and to be back in the hands of your own man again.

These trained attendants are never content with doing enough; they always want to do just a little more, and that little more is a weariness to the patient .-- Now I have brought you to-day one who is prepared to do all you need, and yet who, I feel sure, will never annoy you by attempting more than you desire.

Sir Deryck Brand's prescription, Nurse Rosemary Gray, is here; and I believe she is prepared to be companion, secretary, reader, anything you want, in fact a new pair of eyes for you, Mr.Dalmain, with a clever brain behind them, and a kind, sympathetic, womanly heart directing and controlling that brain.

Nurse Gray arrived this morning, Mr.Dalmain." No response from the bed.

But Garth's hand groped for the wall; touched it, then dropped listlessly back.
Jane could not realise that SHE was "Nurse Gray." She only longed that her poor boy need not be bothered with the woman! It all seemed, at this moment, a thing apart from herself and him.
Dr.Mackenzie spoke again.