Looking confidently at the surface--without an idea of what was going on below it--he could tell Teresa, with a safe conscience, that he understood the case.

He was always ready to comfort her, when her excitable Italian nature passed from the extreme of hope to the extreme of despair.

"My good woman, we see our way now: it's a great point gained, I assure you, to see our way." "What do you mean by seeing your way ?" said the downright nurse.

"Tell me when Carmina will be well again." Mr.Null's medical knowledge was not yet equal to this demand on it.
"The progress is slow," he admitted, "still Miss Carmina is getting on." "Is her aunt getting on ?" Teresa asked abruptly.

"When is Mistress Gallilee likely to come here ?" "In a few days--" Mr.Null was about to add "I hope;" but he thought of what might happen when the two women met.