Paul's destiny, though none knew it, hung in the balance.

"I disapprove altogether of the cottage hospital," she said.
"Eh ?" said the doctor.
The Archdeacon raised his eyebrows.

"My dear Ursula, I thought you had made the Morebury Cottage Hospital the model of its kind." "Its kind is not for people who carry about Sir Thomas Browne in their pocket," retorted the disingenuous lady.

"If I turned him out of my house, doctor, and anything happened to him, I should have to reckon with his people.

He stays here.