Your progress will be a regular charge of the light brigade with Marys on all sides." "Now you're making yourself unpleasant," said the professor.

"And, to change the subject, why do you insist upon calling Desire 'Mrs.
Spence ?' She calls you John." To his questioner's infinite amazement the doctor blushed.
"She has told me I might," he admitted.

"But it seemed so dashed cheeky." "Why?
You are at least ten years older than she.

And a friend of the family." "Ten years is nothing," said the doctor.

"And I want to be her friend, not a friend of the family.