[Our Friend the Charlatan by George Gissing]@TWC D-Link bookOur Friend the Charlatan CHAPTER V 5/30
Pale, breathing uneasily, he supported the scrutiny of those dark eyes for what seemed to him a minute or two of most uncomfortable time.
Then, with the faintest of welcoming smiles, Lady Ogram--who had slowly straightened herself--spoke in a voice which startled the hearer, so much louder and firmer was it than he had expected. "I am glad to see you, Mr.Lashmar.Pray sit down." Without paying any attention to the rest of the company, Dyce obeyed. His feeling was that he had somehow been admitted to the presence of a sovereign, and that any initiative on his own part would be utterly out of place.
Never in his life had he felt so little and so subdued. "You have come from town this morning ?" pursued his hostess, still closely examining him. "This morning, yes." Lady Ogram turned to the lady sitting near her right hand, and said abruptly: "I don't agree with you at all.
I should like to see as many women doctors as men.
Doctoring is mostly humbug, and if women were attended by women there'd be a good deal less of that.
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