"I wonder you did not marry, just to get rid of me." "Have you ever seriously wondered why I don't marry ?" he asked quickly.
"Oh, David," she exclaimed, "what else do you think your patients and I talk of when I am trying to nurse them?
It has agitated the town ever since you first walked up the Marrywellbrae, and we can't get on with our work for thinking of it." "Seriously, Grizel ?" She became grave at once.

"If you could find the right woman," she said wistfully.
"I have found her," he answered; and then she pressed her hands together, too excited to speak.
"If she would only care a little for me," he said.
Grizel rocked her arms.

"I am sure she does," she cried.

"David, I am so glad!" He saw what her mistake was, but pretended not to know that she had made one.

"Are you really glad that I love you, Grizel ?" he asked.
It seemed to daze her for a moment.