If she was determined to be a musician it would be different, but it is only for her pleasure, and as an accomplishment." He spoke earnestly and impersonally, as he always did when she consulted him on any of her affairs, He was trying, too, to wipe from her mind all remembrance of his impatience.
Jane kept her eyes on the carpet for a moment, and then said quietly, and he thought in rather a hopeless tone: "It is best we go at once." The doctor looked at her searchingly--with the eye of a scientist, this time, probing for a hidden meaning.
"Then there is something else you have not told me; someone is annoying her, or there is someone with whom you are afraid she will fall in love.

Who is it?
You know how I could help in a matter of that kind." "No; there is no one." Doctor John leaned back thoughtfully and tapped the arm of the sofa with his fingers.

He felt as if a door had been shut in his face.
"I don't understand it," he said slowly, and in a baffled tone.

"I have never known you to do a thing like this before.

It is entirely unlike you.