Something in the expression of the girl's face haunted and troubled him a long time afterward.
"Our young friend is getting rather gay," said Dr.Hillhouse to Mr.
Elliott, half an hour afterward.

He referred to Ellis Whitford, who was talking and laughing in a way that to some seemed a little too loud and boisterous.

"I'm afraid for him," he added.
"Ah, yes! I remember what you were saying about his two grandfathers," returned the clergyman.

"And you really think he may inherit something from them ?" "Don't you ?" asked the doctor.
"Well, yes, of course.

But I mean an inordinate desire for drink, a craving that makes indulgence perilous ?" "Yes; that is just what I do believe." "If that be so, the case is a serious one.