"Not in the least," she answered.

"I have nursed hundreds of cases." "Oh, my, how dreadful! And never caught it ?" "Never.

I am not afraid, you see." "I wish _I_ wasn't! Hundreds of cases! It makes one ill to think of it!...

And all successfully ?" "Almost all of them." "You don't tell your patients stories when they're ill about your other cases who died, do you ?" Lady Meadowcroft went on, with a quick little shudder.
Hilda's face by this time was genuinely sympathetic.

"Oh, never!" she answered, with truth.