You see," with a certain childish naivete, "she hasn't seen you yet.

And mother dislikes doctors very much.

Oh!" with a hot blush, "you will think we are a queer family, all of us!" "It is not at all queer to dislike doctors," he answered her cheerfully.
"I dislike them myself.

At the very best they are necessary evils." "Indeed no! And when one is ill it seems so foolish--" "Is Mrs.Coombe ill ?" "I don't know.

I think so.