'Very well,' said I, 'than let Lady Ogram invite me to come and see her.'-- 'If I were you,' said the doctor, 'I think I shouldn't wait for that.'-- 'Perhaps not, doctor,' I replied, 'but you are not me, and I am myself.' The result of which was that Dr.Baldwin told me I had as little grammar as civility, and we quarrelled--as we regularly did once a week." Dyce listened with amusement.
"And she did invite you ?" he asked.
"Yes.

A month afterwards, she wrote to the hospital, and, as the letter was decent, though very dry, I went to Rivenoak.

I could not help a kindly feeling to Lady Ogram, when I saw her; it reminded me of some of the happiest days of my childhood.

All the same, that first quarter of an hour was very dangerous.

As you know, I have a certain pride of my own, and more than once it made my ears tingle.