At first he was pretty sure to find Miss Vivian, sitting with Miss Quincey or drinking tea in perilous intimacy with Mrs.Moon.Then came a long spell when, time it as he would, he never saw her at all.

Rhoda had taken it into her head to choose six o'clock for her visits, and at six he was bound to be at home for consultations.

But Rhoda or no Rhoda, he kept his promise.

He was looking well after Miss Quincey.

He would have done that as a matter of course; for his worst enemies--and he had several--could not say that Cautley ever neglected his poorer patients.