Why are you so blind ?" She could have shaken him.

"Don't you see that once Elspeth was willing to be taken care of by some other person----I must not tell you!" "Then he would marry you ?" She cried in anxiety: "Have I told you, or did you find out ?" "I found out," he said.

"Is it possible he is so fond of her as that ?" "There never was such a brother," she answered.

She could not help adding, "But he is still fonder of me." The doctor pulled his arm over his eyes and sat down again.

Presently he was saying with a long face: "I came here to denounce the cause of your unhappiness, and I begin to see it is myself." "Of course it is, you stupid David," she said gleefully.