This is quite a sudden plan, only determined upon last night.

They both want a little Barport life before the season closes, and thought it would be pleasant to go with us." Mrs.Drane and Cicely were not very much interested in the Bannisters, and received this news tranquilly, but Miriam felt a little touch of remorse, and wished she had asked Dora to come out some afternoon and bring her dog, which poor Ralph seemed so anxious to have.

She asked the doctor how long he thought the Bannisters would stay away.
"Oh, we shall pick them up as we come back," he said "and that will be in about two weeks." And with this the busy man departed.
Since the beginning of his practice, Dr.Tolbridge had never gone away from Thorbury for an absence of any considerable duration without first calling on Miss Panney to see if she needed any attention from him before he left, and on this occasion he determined not to depart from this custom.

It is true, she was very angry with him, but so far as he could help it, he would not allow her anger to interfere with the preservation of a life which he considered valuable.
When the old lady was told that the doctor had called and had asked for her, she stamped her foot and vowed she would not see him.

Then her curiosity to know what brought him there triumphed over her resentment, and she went down.